The thing is, I want to write a mosaic. Lots of short pieces, overlapping points of view, creating a whole picture that the reader feels she's walked through as through real places and events.
But you need the right plot for that. And I can spin characters all day, but maneuvering them into a plot, that's different.
I think that's why the happy family serial killer story doesn't quite work. (Yet. I haven't given up on it.)
Will I know the right plot when I see it, that is the question?
I'm tired of throwing characters and scenes at the page and not seeing a saleable work emerge. Maybe I should pick some subject or other and do blind research.
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