{"id":30110,"date":"2025-12-15T04:05:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=30110"},"modified":"2025-12-15T04:05:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:05:34","slug":"how-to-handle-plot-holes-effectively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/15\/how-to-handle-plot-holes-effectively\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Handle Plot Holes Effectively"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HTWTF-Episode-183-Blog-Images.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-30111 size-full aligncenter\" title=\"How To Handle Plot Holes Effectively\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HTWTF-Episode-183-Blog-Images.png\" alt=\"Image of a plot hole for How To Handle Plot Holes Effectively\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HTWTF-Episode-183-Blog-Images.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HTWTF-Episode-183-Blog-Images-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HTWTF-Episode-183-Blog-Images-1.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-30112 size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Quote from How To Handle Plot Holes Effectively\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HTWTF-Episode-183-Blog-Images-1.png\" alt=\"Quote from How To Handle Plot Holes Effectively\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HTWTF-Episode-183-Blog-Images-1.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HTWTF-Episode-183-Blog-Images-1-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How To Handle Plot Holes Effectively &#8211; How To Write the Future podcast, episode 183<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt&#8217;s hard to fix a manuscript that is not yet finished. And this is what I counsel all of my clients and people who might want to work with me is write the whole first draft because there&#8217;s something that brought you to the story. And if you&#8217;re able to finish the story, even if the end of the story doesn&#8217;t quite feel like the end.\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; Beth Barany<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this How To Write the Future episode, \u201cHow to Handle Plot Holes Effectively,\u201d host Beth Barany answers a listener&#8217;s question on how to handle your story&#8217;s plot holes when you\u2019re deep into writing the rough draft and how to take the necessary steps, depending on whether you\u2019re a plotter or a panster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this episode:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gain insight into how to handle plot holes<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tips to help you solve the problems in your story development<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Platforms the podcast is available on:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/183-how-to-handle-plot-holes-effectively\/id1641025914?i=1000741324472\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061\/episodes\/18275983-183-how-to-handle-plot-holes-effectively\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buzzsprout<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/13NYX34Jyc8fJS86yjd9Du\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ExpOUdfsbrU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ExpOUdfsbrU?si=h10Aa1btp9jxzlto\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' charset='utf-8' src='https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061.js?container_id=buzzsprout-large-player&#038;player=large'><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><b>RESOURCES<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>FOR CREATIVE WRITING PROFESSIONALS &#8211; BUILD YOUR BUSINESS SERVING WRITERS<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sign up to be notified when our training opens and get a short Creative Business Style Quiz to help you create success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bethbarany.com\/apprenticeship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/bethbarany.com\/apprenticeship\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Support our work for creatives!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Buy me a coffee:<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/bethbarany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/bethbarany<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>GET HELP WITH YOUR WORLD BUILDING &#8211; START HERE<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Free World Building Workbook for Fiction Writers:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/world-building-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/world-building-resources\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>GET SOME FREE WRITING COACHING LIVE ON THE PODCAST<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Sign up for the 30-minute Story Success Clinic with Beth Barany:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/story-success-clinic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/story-success-clinic\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>GET SUPPORT FOR YOUR FICTION WRITING BY A NOVELIST AND WRITING TEACHER AND COACH<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Schedule an exploratory call here and see if Beth can support you today:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/discovery-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/discovery-call\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About the How To Write the Future podcast<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How To Write The Future<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> podcast is for science fiction and fantasy writers who want to write positive futures and successfully bring those stories out into the marketplace. Hosted by Beth Barany, science fiction novelist and creativity coach for writers. We cover tips for fiction writers.This podcast is for readers too if you\u2019re at all curious about the future of humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This podcast is for you if you have questions like:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; How do I create a believable world for my science fiction story?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; How do I figure out what&#8217;s not working if my story feels flat?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; How do I make my story more interesting and alive?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This podcast is for readers, too, if you\u2019re at all curious about the future of humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transcript for episode 183 &#8211; How to Handle Plot Holes Effectively\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Introduction: Facing Plot Holes\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> One of my clients recently asked me how to handle plot holes. They were about two-thirds through writing their manuscript for their science fiction novel, and they were like, Oh my goodness, I just realized there is a big plot hole. What do I do? Do I go back to the beginning, rewrite the entire story to fix that plot hole? Do I go forward and deal with it later?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And it totally stopped them in their tracks, and it in fact had stopped them in their tracks for weeks, maybe months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So when they brought me this question, I asked them, So, how have you gotten to this point? Did you plan out the entire story and then just forgot something? Or did you write by the seat of your pants?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[00:50] Plotters vs. Pantsers: Different Writing Styles<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There&#8217;s plotters and pantsers. So people who plot tend to plan everything in great detail ahead of time, and people who pants sit down and just start writing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But there&#8217;s also an in-between group in which I am also in this in-between group, whereas I do some, I don&#8217;t like to plot, I do planning, and I know the major milestones of my story with quite a lot of detail, but I leave a lot of things open because I love to discover the story as I write.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have both cats here on my lap. Hey sweetie. It&#8217;s okay. Okay, so first off, if you get stuck with a plot hole, it&#8217;s good to know how did you get here? How did you get here so far?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are a plotter, and Ezra, my husband, is a plotter, and he sometimes encounters plot holes. He goes back to his outline, and from what I see, from outside, because I&#8217;m not in his process and his process is a bit mysterious to me because I&#8217;m not a plotter, is he will make notes for the new plot direction he&#8217;s going in. And he will also make notes on how to fix the plot hole, but he keeps writing, and this is for the first draft.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[02:05] Handling Plot Holes: Keep Writing<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So he and I both are in the same school of thought, which is keep writing to the end because it&#8217;s hard to fix a manuscript that is not yet finished, and this is what I counsel all of my clients and people who might wanna work with me is write the whole first draft because there&#8217;s something that brought you to the story, and if you&#8217;re able to finish the story, even if the end of the story doesn&#8217;t quite feel like the end, in fact, my first drafts the endings are often not quite there. I feel like there&#8217;s another piece missing, but I don&#8217;t know what it is, and I cannot fix it right now. I have to read the whole book, and then I can add the ending, make some decisions about the ending.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So if you are a more intuitive writer, and this client is a more intuitive writer, and only knew parts of the story, but not the whole story. They knew enough to get them going all the way two-thirds into the story. And then they started getting stuck and realized that they had plot holes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[03:03] Brainstorming Solutions: Journaling and Character Interviews<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So what I recommend at this point is to do some brainstorming in writing, ideally, about the problem. And this is actually how I wrote my first, no, my second full-length novel is I would get stuck day to day, and I would write in my journal how to handle the next problem, and then I would write it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So use journaling as a way to figure out the plot hole. Often, the problem is with the characters, and something that I highly recommend you do is to interview or interrogate, question your characters, and find out what they think you should do, and if they don&#8217;t know, interview another character, a secondary character, and if they don&#8217;t know, interview a tertiary character, and if they don&#8217;t know, interview a character that&#8217;s not even in your story, who might have a perspective. Maybe this is a character from the future of the event that you&#8217;re now writing about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Essentially, use your creativity to write yourself out of that plot hole.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[04:10] Seeking External Help: Talking It Out<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, if that doesn&#8217;t work, I highly recommend that you talk out your story with a trusted person. This person could be a fellow writer, they could be a writing teacher or a coach, an editor like me. They could be critique group or just even a group of trusted, trusted writers, or please do not discount writing to a total or talking to a total stranger about your story and see if they have an insight. Or talking to somebody who is completely outside of writing, outside of this kind of work, can actually maybe unlock it for you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This has happened to me a few times. Well, actually, one time, it was talking to a total stranger at a writer&#8217;s conference, and they asked me just one question and made one suggestion. And from that, I was able to figure out a plot problem. In another case, I&#8217;ve also spoken to complete strangers who all also were creative people, but they didn&#8217;t know anything about my story, and they helped me brainstorm as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I&#8217;ve enjoyed that when I felt open to it. So just do it if you&#8217;re open to it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[05:18] Summary: Key Strategies for Plot Holes<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, how do you handle plot holes? Here&#8217;s my summary. Use interviewing your characters. Do not stop the process. Keep writing. Try something new. Be daring. I didn&#8217;t actually include that in so far. I just I wanna underline this.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[05:33] Be Daring: Pushing Your Characters\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes when we&#8217;re having problems with the story in our first draft, it&#8217;s because we&#8217;re not being bold enough. We&#8217;re not being gutsy enough. We&#8217;re not taking enough risks. We&#8217;re not really putting our heart on the page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do the next riskiest thing. I dare you. And so this brings me to another question that we love to use in our writing teaching my husband and I, is when we&#8217;re stuck, we ask ourself: what is the worst thing that could happen to my character right here?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because that&#8217;s really where you need to push your character. It depends, of course, where you are in the story, but most of the story is an escalation of problems until you resolve them, if that&#8217;s the kind of story you&#8217;re writing, and therefore ask yourself, what is the worst thing that could happen to my character here?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;ve gotten out of a lot of plot problems this way because the daring idea would come to me. The idea that would both make me cringe and laugh, and I would realize, Oh my goodness, am I really gonna do it? Yep, I&#8217;m gonna do it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Go ahead and be daring. Go ahead and push your characters as far as you&#8217;re able to push them, and that is another way to get through plot holes.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[06:42] Conclusion: Final Thoughts\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alright, that&#8217;s it for this week, everyone. Write long and prosper.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Loved this episode? 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