I have no idea how to plot.
For my first novel, I plotted out everything- every character and every scene down to the last detail. But by the time I was ready to start though, I was bored sick of my novel. I knew what was going to happen so I didn't really feel like writing it anymore.
So then I went to the opposite extreme. For my next attempt at a novel, I just started making things up as I went along. But while I did have something of a plot line going, it was confusing and erratic and I had to keep going back to fix things I had previously written that were being contradicted. Not to mention my writing had something of an empty feel to it- I wasn't really sure what I was writing about and it was obvious through my writing.
So what I want to know is how to plot. I want to know how to plot just enough to know what I'm talking about and have something to say, but not too much or else I'll be bored. And it needs to be an extremely organized system with an order to the way I plot so I can keep track of what's going on.
thank you, any help would be very much appreciated!
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