Aphelion

"Subplots are like candy. Oh, sure, they may look colorful and sweet and tasty, but if you keep stuffing them in your face, then not only is your story going to get tremendously fat, but pretty soon it's going to find itself in a displeased-looking editor's chair with a thousand enormous plot holes in its teeth that now have to be filled in."
--LJ user wrathfulenglish on coherent plotting