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Short & Junk: When the Story Isn't Working

Published: Aug. 25, 2015, 3 a.m.

Jilly asks:\xa0Have you ever been in the middle of a story and decided to replot?This had happened to me for two reasons. 1) I just didn\u2019t like the way the story was going. and 2) I\u2019d written the character in such a way that keeping them in character no longer lined up with the plot.So, how do you go about stepping back, taking a critical view, and replotting from where you are?