
Writing Excuses 7.25: Writing Capers
Writing Excuses
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The Xanatose Gambit
The plan behind the plan that you see crop up in a lot of these Ocean's Eleven style capers is sometimes referred to as the Xanatose Gambit. And because of that, I couldn't let the reader in on it because that was the whole story. The the last 10% of that book is here is Kelsey's plan that you've seen him putting together piece by piece but you didn't know what the pieces of it were. That occurs to me as a way to to make it make the reader feel like they are in on what's going on.
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