Thanks to each of you who followed along on the 3rd Annual International Plot Writing Month also known as PostNaNoPlotPerfection aka PlotWriMo for writers intent on crafting a story that is pleasing to the reader and perhaps on finding a bit of enlightenment along the way.My hope is from following along all last month, you now have a new sense of your story and are energized to undertake a major rewrite, starting... today!Good luck to you.I continue into the New Year with the YouTube Plot …
PostNaNoPlot Perfection
Tomorrow ends NaNoWriMo for another year. That means you have today and tomorrow to finish. No matter what, keep writing. Wednesday begins the 3rd Annual International Plot Writing Month, also known as PlotWriMo or as my friend and short story writer Mary Eastham dubs the month of December, PostNaNoPlot Perfection.Write now. Shape your words into a compelling story throughout December.Perhaps you didn't do nano? Don't even know what it is but you have a draft of your book and are wondering, now …
Happy Thanksgiving
Two days before Thanksgiving, I receive a lovely tweet from writer alerting me that I'm "hanging with [her] in [her] kitchen today." The fact that I am on the West Coast and she in the east makes her message all the more delightful! I visualize her watching my vlog in her kitchen as she prepares for Thanksgiving day.She follows up with another tweet saying "the supporting cast" seagulls REALLY captured the attention of [her] golden retriever. The gulls steal the show here.Thank you for visiting …
What Skills Necessary for Protagonist to Rediscover?
Writers struggle with where and how to begin their stories for the same reason many writers begin in present story time and immediately flip to a flashback. The moment the protagonist loses her innocence or footing often takes place years before the real story time begins. In order to prevail at the Climax, the protagonist must rediscover the beliefs, skills, knowledge, or experience lost in her back-story.I use The Kite Runner, Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden as examples on Step 16 of the Plot …
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Too Airy-Fairy???
The fear you greet at every major threshold of your life is simply based on a fantasy of a danger that has not happened. Rather than stay frozen on the future, get out of your head. Feel your body. Seize this moment and write something, anything. Keep moving. Write through the fear. Today, detach from the outcome and concentrate on putting one world after another on the page. Forget the duality of good versus bad. Marvel at the miracle of words appearing out of nowhere and you writing them on …
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