A writer just tweeted that because of the pre-plotting she did, she was able to complete NaNoWriMo one entire week early! Great news. Who knows what she'll find during PlotWriMo? The important thing is she has a rough draft of her novel completed. Cause for celebration!A pre-plot is simply a rough plot plan with key scenes mapped out for both the character emotional development plot and the dramatic action plot with some thematic elements identified and including perhaps the romance plot. The …
Bookstore Book Launch Party Idea
Want a sure way to entice book lovers to attend your bookstore book launch party? Promise cake (a thematically-true cake). They will come!I learned this tip from my friend and writing coach Teresa LeYung Ryan. She brought a flat cake to every bookstore on her first book tour. Friends and fans left with a book(s) and a full stomach of cake.I took her idea one step further and decorated the flat cake with a fondant cover of the book I was promoting -- first for the The Plot Whisperer: Secrets …
2 1/2 weeks into Writing a Fast Draft in a Month
By now, you have written the Beginning 1/4 of your story, the End of the Beginning scene, and are now firmly in the exotic world of the of the Middle.Yesterday, you wrote the Recommitment scene and today you started in on writing the 2nd 1/2 of the MiddleThe exotic world of the middle is controlled by antagonists. Create and use as many antagonists as you can to interfere with her forward progress and challenge her long-held beliefs.NaNoWriMo Schedule:11/21 -- Write the Crisis(For additional …
We Have a Winner!
In honor of launching The Plot Whisperer Workshop Series for writers, we raffled off a free copy of The Plot Whisperer Workbook: Step-by-Step Exercises to Help You Create Compelling Stories, the basis of the 4 four-week workshop intensives.In January 2014, literary agent Jill Corcoran brings her expertise in publishing and I bring what I know about plot. The program is powered by an innovative interactive video chat platform that allows you to participate with us directly--as though …
The “So-What” Test
"Does it pass the "so what" test? Do I really have something that's important enough to put down on paper? I want to get a handle on this plot and see if the plot's worth investing in."Difficult to answer until we proceed deeper into the consultation.She's frustrated because she's tried everything in the The Plot Whisperer books -- slapping up banner paper on the wall, buying post-it notes of all colors, creating a plot planner and every time she attempts to plot out the story, she has to keep …
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