Kids Plotting with Dad

My two youngest children have been really cute lately. They have insisted on helping me plot out the second book in The Shadow Magic Series – The Shadow’s Servant. Ellie, my youngest daughter, read and enjoyed the first book, so she takes this very seriously. To do this, we decided to take a bunch of index cards and write down potential plot points, and post them up on the back of my study doors. This way, we can move them around until the story flows like I’d like. My wife likes to keep the study doors open, so, if the index cards are on the back of the doors, they are secretly out of sight – passing the wife test. She likes the walls bare and clean-looking. I’m making progress on the draft. The children have come up with some excellent ideas, and I think I’m going to figure out a way to use one or two of them. At a minimum, we can laugh about it around a campfire one day, right? (Xander really wants a stone army in the book. I think I can work that in…)