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New Ideas on How to Plot and Write the Middle of a Novel

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 New ideas on how to plot and write the middle of a novel Writers are always looking for new ideas on how to plot and write the middle of a novel. The plot of the Middle of a novel, memoir, screenplay takes place in an exotic world ruled by the antagonists. Both an exotic world and antagonists provide lots of scene opportunities while also creating and building rising tension, suspense, excitement and curiosity to replicate the energy of the Universal Story and keep the reader engaged. A …

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How to Pre-Plot & Complete a Novel or Memoir in a Month

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It's early October and already writers look to the future in anticipation of writing 50,000 words of their novel during the month of November. Lots of writers will jump into the writing frenzy last minute and by-the-seat-of-their-pants with or without a plot idea. Other writers will spend this month dreaming. Writers who love to to organize their lives for the greatest efficiency and less stress will spend October pre-plotting. Then there are writers who take things slowly and methodically, …

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The Power of Transforming Beliefs to Reach the End

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He sees himself and all of life differently after the Crisis. The vision that inspires him to change / transform lives at the dream level. People who no longer fit in the new vision and illusions he's lugged with him everywhere drop away.   Freed energy fires him to act. Changing / transforming the beliefs that keep him small and wounded and scared and angry is much more difficult. He shows his protagonist changing immediately after the crisis. Yet, rather than instantaneous because of …

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Plot Prompts How to Write a Story with a Plot from Beginning to End

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Getting back to the story I abandoned last year when the build-up to Dark Night Energetic Marker and crisis turned too emotional for me to write feels empowering now, a worthy tribute to my own personal climax. To prepare, I flip through my worn and post-it noted copy of The Plot Whisperer Book of Prompts: Easy Exercises to Get You Writing (a Story with Plot from Beginning to End), searching for the prompt where I left off writing. Thanks to the handy little Record section of the book, I …

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Above the Plot Planner Line: How to Test Pacing and Tension in Stories

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When I'm not required to take notes in a Plot Consultation, I often create a mini-Plot Planner for myself to better "see" a writer's story and visually plot and follow along as she recounts scenes.I cringe when I find the 2nd scene takes place around the dinner table with no conflict, tension, suspense or curiosity and the protagonist in control. Hating to write a scene under the Plot Planner line so early in the story, I celebrate when instead, I'm able to pop that same scene above the line …

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