Jenga and plotting

LOML and I played Jenga yesterday evening. And not just any Jenga - Texas Jenga! According to the box, the word 'Texas' is apparently a registered trademark. How on earth does that work?


Anyway, playing Jenga reminded me of making revisions to the structure and plot of a novel. You extricate the elements that don't work, all the while hoping madly that your actions don't collapse your carefully-constructed plot completely.



Sometimes it works.

And sometimes it doesn't.





But you keep going.