Keeping Your Chapters on Track
Kathy McIntosh of Well-Placed Words offers up some great suggestions for staying on track with your chapters. She lists questions at the top of each chapter document and then as she is writing, she reviews them to be sure she is on track in the chapter.
I go one further on this and lay out my chapters in a grid outline – chapters down the left side and main characters across the top. Then I write a short description under each character for what they are doing or thinking in this chapter. It forces me to think about who else might be affected by a specific plot event beside the characters in that scene.
After all, everyone has an opinion and many people like to stick their nose into things that don’t really matter to them at all. You can use that tendency to make your story more believable and cohesive… not to mention, that busybody could cause more problems for your protagonist to overcome.
What methods do you use to keep your chapters on track while you are writing?
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