Create or Edit a Plot Thread
Use a Plot Thread for a smaller clue chain, subplot strand, question, promise or payoff path inside a larger Plot Line.
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Plot Threads
Plot Threads are smaller connected strands that support, complicate or track part of a larger Plot Line.
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Overview
Plot Threads are smaller connected story strands. They sit within, support or complicate a larger Plot Line. If the Plot Line is the broad lane, the thread is a specific clue, promise, suspicion, reveal path or subplot strand inside it.
Use the Plot Threads list to review the strands currently open, developing, dormant or resolved. This helps you see whether clues and promises have enough setup, whether a subplot has disappeared, and whether payoffs are still waiting.
Example
A Plot Line might be "Who killed Annie?" Plot Threads might include the memory tin, the wedding photo, the false suicide theory, Simon Jones or Sophie's interference.
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Plot Threads
Plot Threads are the specific story strands that sit inside plot lines and create markers across scenes.
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Use a Plot Line for a larger unresolved story concern that needs tracking across scenes, chapters, books or a series.
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Plot Lines are larger story questions, promises, mysteries, arcs or unresolved concerns that may run across chapters, books or a series.
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The Plot Line field links a thread to the larger story question, promise or arc it belongs to.
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