The following 5 steps for pre-plotting made simple: 1. Brainstorm ideas: Rough Sketch the 4 Energetic Markers on a Plot Planner 2. Test Concept Ideas for Feedback 3. Interview Your Main Characters 4. Write a Transformational Statement for Protagonist 5. Fill in Scene Ideas on your Plot Planner Contrast Beginning and End Exotic Middle World of the Antagonists 6. Write For more: Read my Plot Whisperer and Blockbuster Plots books for writers. ~~~~ Need …
Cause and Effect Scene by Scene
Cause and effect within and between scenes allows you to seamlessly lead the reader to each major turning point by linking the cause in one scene to the effect in the next scene. This sequencing allows the energy of the story to rise smoothly.If the sequence breaks down, scenes come out of the blue, and your story turns episodic. The reader, in turn, becomes disconcerted.A story is made up of scenes with a clear dependence on each other. Conflict in a scene represents the motivating cause that …
Emotional Elements of Plot: Stories that Last Evoke Emotion
Dramatic action creates the pace of a story and determines the level of story excitement. The thematic significance reveals the meaning of the piece. An emotional connection is fused between the reader and the story through the character emotional development. Not simply how a character develops and transforms physically and intellectually, outfoxing and out-thinking and out-performing an antagonist, readers feel an emotional connection through the development of a character’s emotional …
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17 Steps to Becoming an Effective Communicator with the Muse
A romance writer awakens with her right eye swollen. I suggest that a male in her life wants her to open-up to something she’s refusing or unable to see (issues on the right side of the body often have to do with male energy. The right is female. Eyes = sight).Her eyes widen and she quickly mumbles that she needs to get to know her male protagonist better as if she knows what I’m talking about. I don't need to know what's going on. Only she does and she did.How real are the muses that have been …
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Character Emotional Development: Transformation and Emotional Maturity
The emotional steadiness your protagonist develops in a story (character emotional development plot) comes from all that happens to her (dramatic action plot). Character emotional development: transformation and emotional maturity, I call change, maturity, transformation, transcendence. (Your genre and your story -- action-driven | character-driven -- define the level of character development that fits your story's underlying meaning.) Character emotional development toward transformation and …
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