30-Day Challenge — Adding Breadcrumbs

The draft is written. Now it’s time to add some flavor.

The first draft is complete — phew. I have ten days to add breadcrumbs, edit, design a cover, format, and publish.

But first, what are breadcrumbs?

Breadcrumbs are the little tidbits or teasers strewn throughout a story, leading to a climax or conclusion.

This book will be a reader magnet, so breadcrumbs are even more important.

Which characters do I want the reader to become intrigued with so they will keep reading?

What questions for Bailey and Shar won’t be answered in this book?

If you’ve read the eight chapters — and why wouldn’t you — it isn’t a surprise that Bailey and Shar got a happily for now. Theirs will be a slow burn while her daughters get used to them being together. Then there will be the community and then her late husband’s family.

I’ve gone back through IGNITE and HEAT and started to sprinkle breadcrumbs through those books. Each crumb leads to people suspecting there is more to Bailey and Shar than friendship. And when the country ignites and the community is torn apart by fire, then there is the opportunity for secret relationships to become less secret.