If you haven’t used Scapple, it’s a neat tool for organizing thoughts when editing or writing a novel.

I made bubble diagrams of each suspect in my novel, Avalanche.

Things I found that helped:

• Connections between characters that could strengthen the readers belief that one of the characters was guilty.
• Inconsistencies with clues.
• Ideas for more clues.
• At what point in the plot did the protagonist learn important details. Then I made sure I didn’t reference the information earlier.
• Were the clues evenly balanced amongst the suspects?

It’s a fun and easy tool to work with, and I think has tightened my plot. See Literature and Latte for a better product description.

Here’s a shout out to Kirsten for pointing out Scapple to me. She always blogs about something interesting and useful.

Do you have any tools to help you write?

Thanks for reading . . .