Because there are a whole heap of ways to plot a book–and not everything works for everybody–it’s helpful if we know what’s out there so we can make good choices.
Dan Wells is a horror writer, but I’m not going to hold that against him! The guy has an excellent five-part series of YouTube videos on [...]
Gosh, we have a lot of pantsers in our writing universe!
Well, as you’ve figured out by now, I’m probably more of a plotter than a pantser. Having said that, I don’t like to think of myself as being rigid in my plotting, or lacking creativity because of it.
Pantsers often say they’re afraid that if they [...]
Outwardly there may not seem to be a great deal of difference between the Two Pager and the Four Pager except (obviously) two extra pages. But there is a difference in focus that might help make it easier for you to construct.
So far we’ve been following the Ten Point outline–making sure we cover all the [...]
As we close the posts on the Two Page Synopsis I’ll show you how you can expand a couple of other sections so that you can do the same for the remaining points and complete your Two Pager on your own.
Last time, we expanded our Heroine’s backstory and internal conflict, which gave an example of [...]
Okay. You’ve got the fifty word heart of your novel. What do you do with it? Expand it out to ten pages? No. You now use this distillation to write a three or four paragraph back-of-the-book teaser first.
There are three excellent reasons to write the teaser now.
To look at the work as a reader not [...]
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