{"id":228,"date":"2012-12-02T01:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2012\/12\/02\/too-much-of-a-good-thing-over-plotting-your-novel\/"},"modified":"2012-12-02T01:38:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T01:38:00","slug":"too-much-of-a-good-thing-over-plotting-your-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2012\/12\/02\/too-much-of-a-good-thing-over-plotting-your-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Much of a Good Thing: Over Plotting Your Novel&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.janicehardy.com\/2011\/03\/too-much-of-good-thing-over-plotting.html?spref=bl\">The Other Side of the Story: Too Much of a Good Thing: Over Plotting Your Novel&#8230;<\/a>: By Janice Hardy<\/p>\n<p><b>Showing All Sides, But Still Needing More\u00a0<\/b><br \/><span>Layers are good, but adding plots to show another side or perspective because you feel the reader just won\u2019t get it if you don\u2019t should make you pause. Your instincts are in the right place \u2013 you know you need more to make the story work \u2013 but you\u2019re looking wider, not deeper, and adding things that likely only explore the idea. Are you:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Focusing only on the premise aspect of the story and ignoring the characters and their problems?<\/li>\n<li>Adding characters whose sole job it is to get one point across?<\/li>\n<li>Getting caught up in really cool backstory for one (or more) of your secondary characters or antagonist and feeling they deserve their own character arc?<\/li>\n<li>Trying to tell everyone\u2019s story?<\/li>\n<li>Pulling your protagonist in so many directions you lose narrative drive because it\u2019s hard to tell what the story is about anymore?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><span><span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span>An excellent post on red flags for a novel trying to go in too many directions at once. Read the rest.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Other Side of the Story: Too Much of a Good Thing: Over Plotting Your Novel&#8230;: By Janice Hardy Showing All Sides, But Still Needing More\u00a0Layers are good, but adding plots to show another side or perspective because you feel the reader just won\u2019t get it if you don\u2019t should make you pause. Your instincts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}