Is It a Subplot or Simply a Sidetrack? How to Tell If You Have Strayed Too Far in Your Novel

Sidetracks are interesting to you, but rarely to the reader

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There’s a fine line between subplots and sidetracks. But not that fine that you can’t work out which is which. Sidetracks tend to be the domain of the pantser writer. You write and write and wander off down…