Weekly Plot Help - Week of November 3rd

[alison-sky.livejournal.com]

Got a problem in your NaNo? Who doesn't?! But we've got a way to help!

Post here with your plot problems, and all through the week members of the community will scan through and see if they can help.

AKA - The best way to procrastinate is to help others!

So post your problem. Then take a moment to look at everyone else's and see if you can help them.

People helping people. That's what makes this community great :)

So have at it!

Comments

[jynxgirl.livejournal.com]

My MC is a homicide detective who just got the file of a defenestration. It will eventually be linked to three other murders, culminating in one more murder and the attempted murder of her partner...
BUT....

I have NO idea what to put in the middle...

[agaitis-byrjun.livejournal.com]

Perhaps a subplot related to the main character (or her partner) that could serve as more or less character development? If you really can't think of anything that serves the main plotline, then you can always fall back on something that is just character-driven.

[random-acts.livejournal.com]

In addition to the suggestion above, is there the possibility of slotting in another smaller stand-alone case, say with your MC acting as mentor to the rookie detective who's working on that case? The rookie could keep coming to her for advice and perhaps is rather dim so missing obvious things? It could turn out to be an accidental death that looked like homocide at first (or perhaps I've just been watching too much CSI).

[aislingthebard.livejournal.com]

Just plotting doesn't make a novel interesting. Character development is important too. Your MC seems to have an interesting job. But who is she? And what does she think, and what does she want, and why should your readers care what happens to her?