Day 15 - Plot 1

I'm going to use a technique that my friend robin showed me to do plotting. It is called plot braiding, and I believe it was invented by Alison Kent, but I can't promise to me. Essentially what I do is write out each plot as its own seperate thread, which will take me a bunch of days. I'm going to start with the first thread, the magic thread.

First: And accident happens to Steven Right, which damages his brain, his body, and he absorbs some magical energy. This magical energy remains stuck in his brain, although for a short time he is exuding energy, causing things to happen with barely a thought. But that ability quickly fades, until it seemed that it was only imagined.

Second: Steven Right learns that magic exists. He learns this in a meeting for recently disabled people being held in a public school at night. One of the other people there comments on how he was once looking for something to cling to after his accident, and how at one point he came to believe in magic. He even found a teacher, but it turned out to be a bunch of crap. Steven Right heres this and demands information on the teacher, because he also is looking for something to cling onto.

Third: Steven Right hunts down the teacher, but the teacher won't teach him anything. Steven begs, saying he'll be the teachers servent, doign whatever he wants. The teacher takes him up on that, and soon has Steven spying on the teacher's brother.

Fourth: After several weeks, Steven grows desperate, certain that the teacehr wil lteach him nothing. Steven breaks into his private files and his safe. There he finds a piece of paper with a few diagrams drawn on it, and a few words of explanation, but not enough for it all to make sense.

Final: Steven Right believes that he understands magic and trusts himself enough to try it. Because he believes in himself, he is able to achieve what he couldn't before.

That's only about five scenes, so this clearly isn't a major plot of the novel, but is a subplot. I might end up with ten or twenty subplots at this rate. ;) As long as it works, I'm happy.