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I have the opposite issue, my main plot ideas need a lot of time but I often didn’t have enough sub-plots to fill up the middle. I do think I’ve gotten better at that though.

Do you use chapter by chapter outlines or list of chronological events outlines?

I was absently thinking of that time our gremlin cat jumped on the table while I was writing and sat in front of my computer until I gave him attention.

Fair. 🙂 Cats have habit of getting right in ones face without thought for the consequences. I almost dropped a dumbbell on one this morning because the goofy thing was trying to figure out what it was.

Off topic, (ha, like we have a topic) do you have a part you usually struggle to write?

I struggle with beginnings, I tend to make them too slow while trying to set up everything, though I can usually fix that in a second draft. Finales are also a nightmare, I usually just don’t find them that interesting to write since I already know what’s going to happen.

I mean, obviously fight scenes for one thing. 🙃

For me I think it’s everytime I introduce a major character (so similar to your beginnings one). I’m not sure to what degree I actually struggle with it, but I always feel like my head is going to implode when I try to show that character’s personality, internal conflict/flaw, backstory, and normal life without either keeping to much back or info dumping. The other big thing that ties into this is making sure it’s very, extremely, explicitly clear why  that character decides to become a part of the plot. A character that starts a journey for no visible reason or at least an interesting explanation of why, is something that I’m always worried about doing.