Needless to say, the Holmes/ Watson accounts differ considerably from Moriarty’s own narrative. In his telling of the tale we have what appears to be the definitive description (which I have set down in detail in The Return of Moriarty): It is Moriarty—in the midst of planning a huge robbery—who ...
Without repetition of what has been said already, this chapter will examine all three of these methods as they apply to plotting short fiction, the novella, and the novel, and also examine ways of plotting other kinds of fiction, including the kind we call “plotless.” The discussion cannot hope t...