Writer labels herself as a "plotter" during our plot consultation. Whether you call yourself the same or write more by the "seat of your pants", strive to identify the following 4 Energetic Markers in your story as early in the process as possible:The End of the BeginningThe Halfway PointThe CrisisThe ClimaxSince the writer has revealed to me all the defining traits of a classically left-hemisphere dominate writer, such a task of analyzation brings up no resistance from her. However, she did …
Writer’s Goals Summer Solstice Check-In
June 21st marks the beginning of summer and is the longest day of the year. After tomorrow, the days shorten until the longest night of the year on December 21st.Where are you on your journey toward accomplishing the writing goals you set for yourself at the beginning of the year? How many pages, scenes or words are left to reach the end of this draft of your novel, memoir, screenplay? Divide that number by the 182 days left until the 21st of Dec. The final number represents the pages, scenes or …
Writing to the End
A joy working with a writer who looks to the end of her story for clues as to what belongs in the beginning. Do you know the ending for your story?How many books have you written from the beginning all the way to the end? How many times have you written the beginning quarter of the book you are writing now versus how many times have you written the final quarter?Would you call yourself someone who finishes what she begins? Someone who achieves her goals? If not, what or whom is stopping you?When …
Thematic Significance for Writers
As corny as it sounds, I'm wild about thematic significance. I mean if the Universal Story longs to manifest, what better way than through a story's deeper themes?There are writers who excel at writing character-driven stories and those who prefer action-driven stories. Also, though I've found rarer, are writers who lean toward theme-driven stories. Jodi Picoult in Change of Heart, shows the affects the dramatic action has on the characters' emotional development in order to bring to the fore …
Plot Your Writer’s Life
A client and friend is near completing the rough draft of her project. Rather than jump in and write the end, she moans about all the work still left to be done to finish and then in the rewriting (I'll include another one or two or three or more of those -- and rewriting), and then all that comes after that.Early-on she decided when the book is finished, she wants to self-publish. Now that I am going the traditional route after having self-published my first book, she asked me my opinion.I …
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