Learn how to write from the beginning as you plot your story from the end. Writing for discovery benefits creativity and, without a clear idea of where your story is taking you, can quickly lead you astray. Rather than for months wandering down dead-ends and dark alleyways, plot your story from the end to the beginning as your write from the beginning to the end. Writing from the beginning and plotting from the end supports both your logic and your imagination. As you write forward, constantly …
Plot Tip for the Middle of a Novel, Memoir, Screenplay
Plot tip for the middle of a novel-memoir-screenplay depends on overarching tension Do you use words like meddlesome, murky, sagging to describe the middle of an early draft of your novel, memoir, or screenplay? Depend on the following plot tip. One way to support the Middle is by providing an overarching tension -- Will she or won't she? When the reader is clear there is something significant at stake, like life or death, and will be revealed later in the story, the reader is willing to …
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Control the Pacing of Your Novel, Memoir, Screenplay
Learn how to control the pacing of your novel, memoir, screenplay. Plot the pace and intensity of all the major events of your novel, memoir, screenplay along the Plot Planner line. Rather than outline your plot in list-form or story-board your ideas in a flat and linear progression, plot the pacing of your scenes to rise and fall in the dynamic pattern found in all great stories. As the line of the Plot Planner slowly rises at the beginning, control the pacing of the action, emotion, …
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What is the Definition of Plot?
What is the Definition of Plot The definition of plot incorporates the 3 major plot lines in every great story: Dramatic Action Character Emotional Development Thematic Significance Also included in the definition of plot is the all important cause and effect. Plot is how the dramatic action changes or transforms the protagonist's emotional development over time through cause and effect in a meaningful way. See for yourself: To learn how to incorporate all three plot lines and …
Challenges of Writing a Rough Draft
Ready to embark on writing a new novel, memoir, screenplay? One of the greatest challenges of writing a rough draft is longing to give into the insatiable desire to go back over what you've written and perfect as you write. Some of the Challenges of Writing a Rough Draft 1) As you write forward, you find all sorts of characters and details and actions you missed earlier. Rather than forge on, you're tempted to go back and added what's missing. 2) You become more and more uncomfortable as the …
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