http://www.marybethsmith.com/2009/12/gaping-plot-holes-of-destruction-271 Aspiring Novelist Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:07:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.marybethsmith.com/2009/12/gaping-plot-holes-of-destruction-271/comment-page-1#comment-238 Daisy Whitney Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:35:53 +0000 http://www.marybethsmith.com/?p=271#comment-238 Well, I wrote the entire first draft of THE MOCKINGBIRDS without the Mockingbirds even in it! Yep, the first draft didn't even have the secret society that the book is all about in it. The second I wrote THE END, I knew something was amiss and that I was missing an underground justice system...So I went back and started reworking it and building in what the whole book is about now! We have all been there and figuring out the problem is actually fun! Solving it even better! Well, I wrote the entire first draft of THE MOCKINGBIRDS without the Mockingbirds even in it! Yep, the first draft didn’t even have the secret society that the book is all about in it. The second I wrote THE END, I knew something was amiss and that I was missing an underground justice system…So I went back and started reworking it and building in what the whole book is about now! We have all been there and figuring out the problem is actually fun! Solving it even better!

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