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Each Monday, we upload the latest session of the Plot Series: How Do I Plot a Novel, Memoir, Screenplay? Plot Book Group for Writers. This month’s book selection is Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson.

We chose Helen Simonson’s debut novel and New York Times best-seller, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand to demonstrate some of the plot techniques she used so effectively that the story won a coveted New York Times Book Review.
Last week – 1A – you were asked to:
– Determine the basic structure of your story
This week – 1B – you are asked to:
– Begin a Plot Planner for your story with the protagonist’s character emotional change from the beginning to the end of the story

For more support, check out Chapter 3 of:

For more about the Universal Story and writing a novel, memoir or screenplay, visit Plot Series: How Do I Plot a Novel, Memoir, Screenplay? on YouTube. A directory of all the steps to the series is to the right of this post.