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Weaving the Plot

So, there's plotting, and then there's wringing hands and cackling nefariously as ideas hatch into evil little plans. Guess which one I'm doing. The problem with nefarious cackling is that there's no real design to it. Short bursts of brilliance (or something bright and shiny, at least) rather than a sustained, logical progression of ideas. I've resorted to note cards. Something I've never done with success before - it feels too methodical and organized, concepts to which my brain has a natural aversion. I think it would be much more natural to think of my story as something woven - like finger-knitting, perhaps. (There's a long story involving four bored girl-cousins at Grandma's house, several skeins of yarn, a long, dirt, U-shaped driveway, and a great-uncle's birthday, to which I will not subject you. Suffice to say, I know finger-knitting). Each strand of this plot that I'm working on should be yarn of a different color and texture