Plot Paradox

Crap.

I have three plot threads that I’m working on right now, and when I go to arrange them I realize that all three depend on each other having already happened.

Crap.

I mean, seriously – how do I have three subplots that are all dependent on each other having already happened??? Stupid, stupid, stupid write by numbers!!

[update]

Well, that existential crisis was thankfully short lived. And see, this is why I don’t blog often – usually when something strikes me as blog worthy, by the time I get around to typing it up its less pertinent. In this case, if I’d just held off for a while, it barely would have qualified as an amusing comment.

So, ah, instead, why don’t you go over to Neal Asher’s blog and watch the video clip where he answers my question on his first break into publishing.

http://theskinner.blogspot.com/2009/12/neal-asher-video-clip-1-201209.html