David macinnis gill biography

How does a character-first writer who wrote six novels by the seat of his pants become known as the Plot Guy?

That’s a great question, and being an almost pathological answerer of questions, I have an answer for you—rejection.

As of the moment that I posted this, I have published seven novels with a New York Big Five house, and the eighth is headed for copyedits.

However, I’ve written many more novels than I’ve had published, and it took until the seventh novel before an editor acquired what became my debut. I had to learn how to plot, and the Sticky Note Plot method is what I invented.

In 2015, I shared the Sticky Note publicly for the first time at a weekend writing retreat at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

It was a hit, and one writer in attendance used it to revise their books and get published for the first time. They are still using the method, and more than a dozen books created or revised by the SNP method have been published.

The SNP became a standard part of the stude