Category: plot
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Plot In Your Face
As I made the decision to do NaNoWriMo and began plotting, I have been bombarded with great posts on plotting. So I thought I would share these great posts for you to peruse and glean from. Kaye Dacus: Look What @Sherrinda Made Me DoA look into Kaye’s storyboarding/plotting while she is furiously trying to meet…
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Black Moments
I’m working on a synopsis for my next project, a speculative piece of fiction. I’ve taken Camy Tang’s class on the Synopsis, so I know what to do, yet I am struggling with finding the black moment. You know, the main conflict that throws the main character under the bus. The conflict that takes the…
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Prep Work
I wonder how many people like doing prep work. You know, taping around doors and windows before you paint your bedroom. Steaming and scraping old wallpaper before you paint or lay down new paper. Or how about hoeing or tilling the ground before planting seeds for a garden. I don’t always like the prep work…
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Lost and Not Found
I’ve lost Plot & Structure by James Scott Bell and I am frantic trying to locate it! There are only so many places it could be, right? There is no one to loan it out to…well, there is one, but I don’t remember loaning it to her. So where or where art thou, oh book…
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Synopsis Class Update
I’m nearing the end of my synopsis class I am taking from Camy Tang. This has been the most challenging and the most useful thing I have ever done with my writing. I have learned more the past two weeks than I have reading all my writing books combined! Seriously. Camy puts up a lesson…
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