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How Do I Revise My Novel, Memoir, Screenplay? A Simple 30-Step Revision Process

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In every story's life, there comes a time when an assessment of what you're doing with all those words is needed. What is the whole of your creation? Rather push words around on the page, spend time revising instead. Identify, cut, add, organize, deepen, refine the concept, characters, action and meaning of the scenes of your story at the design level before you actually undertake a major rewrite.Learn your story's strengths and weaknesses in the revision process. No writing required. Instead, …

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The Universal Story and the Sea

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Where I live, the tide determines whether I walk on the beach with sand between my toes or high atop cliffs following the shoreline. At high water, the tide builds to 6 feet with waves crashing against the cliffs and the beach under water. At low water or low tide, waves ebb all the way back to zero feet, exposing the sand and revealing tide pools in a rock plate that juts out into the bay.The waves ebb and flow in much the same way every day. Two low tides in a 24 hour period. Two high tides. …

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Plot Ideas to Write through the Middle: How to Advance the Thematic Significance throughout the Middle and Create Tension

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Middle slowing you down?A Twitter friend refers to the theme bubble exercise I use in The Plot Whisperer Workbook: Step-by-Step Exercises to Help You Create Compelling Stories as theme clouds, a term I prefer ever so much better. (NOTE: I wish my publisher would change all theme bubble references - never did much like bubbles anyway - in both The Plot Whisperer Workbook: Step-by-Step Exercises to Help You Create Compelling Stories and The Plot Whisperer: Secrets of Story Structure Any Writer …

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Transformation and The Universal Story: How Your Inner Stories Influence Your Choices & Decisions in Life

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The Universal Story is a transformational pattern. Learn how your inner stories influence your choices and decisions in life. Release the stories and transform negative emotions. Transformation and the Universal Story is a rhythm all life cycles through. They are made up of beginnings, middles and ends. All of nature, all plants, animals, humans are born, live and die. The cycle of transformation and the Universal Story can loosely be broken into:   Comfort and Separation Expansion and …

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Same Old Story

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Just like the protagonist of your story, you, too, have a story behind the story of your life.We explain things that happen to us, justify our feelings and relive the past through stories rich with emotion that we tell ourselves. We bring our stories into every relationship and fit them around every experience.Memories about the past and fantasies about the future run in our minds behind the living we’re actively engaged in the present moment and emerge in conversation as we interact with …

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