How do you know if you’ve bitten off more than you can chew? How do you know if you haven’t bitten off enough? Is it a bad idea for your novel to include 15 points of view, a reverse chronology, talking ghosts, AND a 50-page history of Siberia? Or is confining yourself to one simple plot and one simple timeline somehow unambitious or limiting? We’ll talk about choosing your elements and complications, finding room for simplicity, identifying helpful complexity, recognizing when addition becomes procrastination, and remembering that you can always change your mind.
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