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Andrew Bitner
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Posted: 22 March 2026 at 4:01pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
JB, when plotting out a series, you structured a main plot, a B-plot and maybe a C-plot in the background. How did you decide what these would be and how they would segue one to the next?
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Posted: 22 March 2026 at 4:42pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
Pretty spontaneous. I’d have two or three plots floating beyond the main one, and I’d get to a point that something would say this is the next one!
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Brian ONeill
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Posted: 22 March 2026 at 5:38pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
I learned the word 'interlude' from the single-page(or scene) 'digressions' from the action, which often set up a forthcoming storyline.
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Posted: 25 March 2026 at 2:06am | IP Logged | 4 post reply
Cool, thanks! 
Were there stories that didn't jell the way you wanted? I ask because I can't recall any subplots that disappeared somewhere between issues.
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Posted: 25 March 2026 at 1:45pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply
Fortunately I was usually plotting far enough ahead that I would catch such things before they became an issue.

Unlike in ELSEWHEN. Ahem.

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Posted: 25 March 2026 at 3:39pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply
He got better!
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