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How do you develop ideas for plots?

Dear Literary Ladies, 
How does a writer develop plot, and more specifically, how do you develop scraps of ideas into plots?

When I start working on a book, which is usually several years and several books before I start to write it, I am somewhat like a French peasant cook. There are several pots on the back of the stove, and as I go by during the day’s work, I drop a carrot in one, and onion in another . . . When it comes time to prepare the meal, I take the pot which is nearly full and bring it to the front of the stove. Read More→


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