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Originally Posted by John Carroll
Interestingly enough, the characters know more than I do. They've lived there all their lives and I'm just a visitor telling a story about the moments of their lives. I honestly don't even know how things are going to end. It's all very exciting.
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You, the author, don't know how it's going to end? How do you know which clues to drop to the readers along the way? How do you keep on track with the story? Have you plotted it out at all?
I don't want to sound like a Debbie Downer, but it's pretty much a guaranteed let-down when I read books that haven't been properly plotted. I want to see a story that is so seamless that it's clear the author wasn't outlining as he went.