I believe when we are new writers, we sense our mistake on a subconscious level, and that is why our plots grow more and more and more complicated. Get out of my head! o.o

The difference between complex and complicated is this. With a complex plot, we can say what the story is about in one sentence.

hum.

Merryn needs to bring the now released god back home to the dentree to destroy the weakened god released from the book of Pordicion.

Okay, that’s not the problem.

So what do you do with your little darlings? They are saved as a word pad file, as sometimes it’s whole chapters that get cut out once I’m able to see that the only thing going on is her just runing around and getting hurt. Like nine chapters of that so far.

I’m finally at one I think can be saved where she has to talk with the antagonist, and it reveals a little bit more of what’s going on. (Err… if he’s the antagonist anymore. I’ll just say he is for now.)

This article has really helped, thank you I’m going to go edit things a bit while I try to figure out just exactly what side Merryn is on. She’s a good person that has messed up.

Sorry if this is long I’m working things out a bit.

Me too! I have a sequel to my novel where those lil’ darlings become the tug of war between a man and woman who work together. And of course, fall in love.

If I can put in a request: protagonists! I struggle with the balance between fitting my main character to the story versus fitting the story to the character.