I tweet this gif as someone who exclusively writes short stories.

Not my chair not my problem, that's what Joy Williams always says.

Well. That escalated quickly.

Oh, yeah, good calls.

To be honest I don't even know what plot-heavy means, so. Yeah.

It's definitely JAWS (the film, obvs)

Lotta whiplash from that guy of late

Solutions can also apply to character motivation, or world-building....hmm. Does one arrive at a solution in a eureka moment? Does one build it from what is already in the text? All of the above? Is a plot twist a solution, or a dodge of one? I think I need to eat lunch.

Have you ever talked about, like, "solutions" in your crafty letter? How one can arrive at a solution, or how solutions can be integrated into the structure or layers of the text (a la Gene Wolfe, maybe), etc? This is maybe less about craft than plot but I imagine you'd have interesting insights!

Sounds like a nnnnnnovel