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7 Ways to Use a Single Subplot (How Quidditch helps tell Harry Potter’s story)

7 Ways to Use a Single Subplot (How Quidditch Helps Tell Harry Potter’s Story) | Great tips for how to use subplots in your stories that don’t feel forced or extraneous, using Harry Potter’s Quidditch as an example. A must read for writers who struggle with subplots.

Subplots are handy. They can explore themes. They can develop characters. But subplots that manage to accomplish more than one thing make stories more complex. Harry Potter‘s Quidditch shows us how a single subplot can serve the main plot in […]

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