The strange magic of non-plotting…. Guest Post by Karen Foxlee, Author of The Wondrous Tale of Lavender Wolfe
I’m in awe of plotters. I love listening to them talk about chapters and scenes. I love their plans. Their maps. The way they can see things like soaring eagles looking down on their story landscape. Okay, okay, so I’m also slightly jealous too. But I also know it’s not my thing. As much as I sometimes wish it could be. My latest novel for children, The Wondrous Tale of Lavender Wolfe , started with two sentences that repeated in my head. I had three names. Lavender first, which is a pretty name but with too many letters to remember if you’re not much good at spelling. It wasn’t much to go on, a little clunky, but I was excited by those words. I’m not a risktaker in real life but give me a few odd sentences from the writing gods and I’ll leap off a cliff into a story. What were the other two names? I needed to know! And who owned this voice? Over the years I’ve learned the best way to be a non-plotter is to t...
