...Although, to be honest, I think my experience might be the result of mixing a bunch of difficult elements together: a main character with a rather unique personality, telling the story from two different perspectives at the same time, AND all the usual crime/mystery stuff.
My normal writing strategy is just to outline a skeleton and write towards the objectives.Normally what I end up writing is better than and different from my original outline, so I just move the skeleton around as I continue to write.
But I'm slowly figuring out that such a relaxed strategy doesn't work well with the mystery drama genre. Keeping all these darn storylines straight takes a lot of planning: There's MC#1's storyline, MC#2's storyline, Main Antagonist #1's storyline, Love Interest #1's storyline; frick, anyone who does anything for more than 2 chapters has a storyline that I have to track and keep in sync with the timeline of the main story. It's lowkey HELL!
TBH I'm having a lot of fun, but I'll be darned if writing this thing doesn't take a lot out of me. ^^; (The worst part is knowing that, considering my track record, once I finish the bloody book no one is even going to read it. But that's neither here nor there...) I'm wondering if there's something I should do differently to make it easier on myself...should I just try to outline everyone's subplots and constantly move multiple skeletons around?? That's all I can think of to do...