With the Women’s Fiction arena now clear in my sights, it’s time to
decide which of two story arcs do I ride into the party.
Plotline #1: Streamlined
story; very complicated people. (i.e… Jack, a recovering alcoholic and
borderline schizophrenic, and Jill, a narcissistic personality with
deeply-seeded people issues, went up the hill to fetch a pail of water…)
Plotline #2: Very complicated
story: streamlined people. (i.e…. Jack and Jill went up the hill in an effort
to evade their own government which has turned inexplicably on its own spies
and marked the pair for death; while there, the couple feigns fetching a pail
of water while signaling their compatriots, an underground network of redeemed
assassins.)
Of course, Plotline #1.5 would be ideal, but that would mean a novel
approximately 450,000 words long… Um, no.
Aargh!!
I’ll keep you updated.
Until tomorrow…
Chloe
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