If you’re grappling with a problem in your story, and then you think up a solution, and then decide (as you should) that no, that solution is too easy, so you toss in a complication, but you still don’t quite know how to make it work . . .
. . . then the answer is in fact to toss in another complication.
Throw plot twists at it until it works1, sez I.
1 — Method not advised for all stories. But it works for some.
Just the advice I need right now… *starts throwing plot twists*
Sometimes it’s just what the doctor ordered.
Even if your characters need a doctor when you’re done.
LOL! I just finished a scene where that couldn’t be more true…
Hmmmmm…that sounds familiar…
I have read stories I am convinced were built by this method.
I think there’s an old story about Dashiell Hammet writing this way (i.e., “whenever you get stuck, just have someone come through the door holding a gun”).
