: Re: What to do if I end up confused by my own plot because of 'trying to be original' or 'trying to make the story more deep'? Sometimes, I find myself in the dilemma that I come out with

@Carla500

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You're trying too hard.

Put the structure of your novel together. Don't worry if it's been done. It's all been done. There are something like forty plots in all human literature. Trust me, whatever you're doing, it's been done. "Boy gets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back" is done twelve times a day and a few extra on Friday nights, but oddly, neither the romance novel business nor the chick-flick industry are collapsing. The point is to do it well.

Write the best novel you can. Have it edited repeatedly. Ask your editors to point out anything which seems painfully derivative, and focus your improvements there.

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