A Double-Plot is a story device in which you develop your story as an interplay of different, similar characters from different but interrelated time periods. Thus an epic novel can contain chapters or scenes of modern times, like the reading of a will when a patriarch of the family has died and then a flashback story to a century earlier when the family fortune was being built. Some novelists use the time machine device to double-plot their story.

Here in The Writer's Interface you have these extra Double-Plot Chapter titles. It's easy just to eliminate them from your framework and planning. However, you can use the Double-Plot Chapters to give background story which you don't directly write about but go back to as short flashbacks, or have characters describe in conversations. To write a full story a writer should plan at least twice, if not tens times as much story as she or he actually commits to text in the final version. Just plotting and writing one surface story without story depth will most certainly appear surface-like and maybe superficial, or even not making sense to the reader.

What is motivating the present action? Write down all the forces and actions from the past at work but choose to dramatize only the most crucial that cause story-shifts.

If The Writer's Interface is seeming too complex for you, remember that you don't have to do any or all of what it suggests. Make a duplicate file of The Writer's Interface with your own story-title on it. Then skim the The Writer's Interface material and cut much of it out, leaving only for you what seems essential. Thus you can on each text page cut out explanations and many elements from long lists. You will be learning how a writer thinks and plans, and that's great. See what you have left and work with that. Add new elements of your own. Write a text out of what you consider essential as to story techniques you use. Then once you have text you can of course review The Writer's Interface and add new techniques to further dramatize story if needed.

You can also simply take a blank WriteItNow file and write your text. Only pull up your version of The Writer's Interface to review what you will put in each chapter as you go along.