by Linda O. Johnston
It's plotting time!
I'm currently finishing the editorial process for the fourth of my Barkery & Biscuits Mysteries for Midnight Ink. Pick and Chews will be a May release.
I also
have a deadline coming up in a few months for number five in the series. No name yet.
I started plotting it a while ago and had to set it aside because of
other writing commitments... but I'm back!
As
always, it's fun to reunite with established characters and create new ones
that'll be important to this new book.
That includes the dogs, of course.
How to
plot? Well, I've established a general
procedure over many years of writing that I call my plot skeleton. It's somewhat based on screenplay plotting. Yes, I'm a plotter, not a pantser. In other words, I start by creating a plot
that I turn into a loose synopsis and work from there. I don't write by the seat of my pants as
pantsers do--at least not much.
Sometimes my characters aren't completely willing to follow my established
plot, and I tend to listen to them.
Every
writer's procedure is different, of course, even though some might have
similarities. I've been at this for a
while and so my subconscious, on whom I rely, tends to follow it even if I
don't give it orders to do so.
So,
subconscious of mine, plot on!
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