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First Draft Feedback: 3 Editors Give Honest Writing Analysis - Part 2

Story Grid Writing Podcast

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The Double Factor Problem in Sherlock Holmes

Watson, your detective, has a suspicion about his captain coming into the scene. He's using Randall, who is the witness coming in, to figure out whether his hunch is correct or not. So you identified the literal action as Watson getting the information that he needs. That's how it moves your global plot forward. We have every avatar in the context operating in the same problem space.

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