Do you ever blend multiple story ideas into one novel?

[Anne Lyle]

I have two main plot lines in my book, but they take place in the same city and they (and the characters in them) interact and have a theme in common (humans' varying attitudes to the non-humans in my world). I prefer that to completely separate PoVs, e.g. characters who don't meet or even live on the same continent until well into the book, which I sometimes find hard to get into as a reader. Not always (GRRM and Richard Morgan write well enough to keep me reading), but it's one more barrier.

 

[Menion]

My current project has 4 mains, with it written in there point of view, they arn't together so it isn't like repeating itself in 3 or 4 perspectives though.

 

[Jake Reynolds]

I have two main characters in each trilogy, and for the first novel they are together, then they split for second and reunite in the third, leading into a third trilogy that unites all four of them. Needless to say, there is a lot of going on, a lot of separate stories, and a host of secondary characters. Still, its no Wheel of Time...

I think anything can be managed in writing, you just need to solve the puzzle of unlocking how it fits...