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NaNoWriMo Plot and Writing Schedule & Resources for 11/13

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Social media and the internet are so quiet. Shhhh, I can hear you writing.The idea of thousands and thousands of writers writing, each of us writing and plotting our own stories and at the same time all of us writing together as one is sublime.Many of you will use the support of other writers to keep us writing. Others will take daily walks. Some will plot as you write. Others have detailed Plot Planners at the ready as you write, every word a joy. I give thanks for journey we travel …

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A Path to Publishing Plot Whisperer Workbook Workshops

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I delight in how a passing comment, a sentence fragment, a sigh can grow from nothing into something. In this case, that something is A Path to Publishing featuring The Plot Whisperer Workbook Workshop Series. Like a story, what began as an idea has blossomed into 4 four-week workshop intensives based on the PWWorkbook. My 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 …

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How to Write in the Zone for a Fast Draft

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One of the greatest predictors of successfully pre-plotting and writing a novel or memoir in a month is the ability to write in the zone. When you’re in the flow of your writing, words and ideas come to you effortlessly. You don’t second-guess yourself. You’re not timid and paranoid about your ability to persevere.Writing fast encourages writing the zone. Lose yourself for one month and then you’re free for the rest of your life with an entire first draft of your story to shape. (Join me …

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Prepare for NaNoWriMo

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Way back on January 1st of this year I invited you to join me in writing a new story, one prompt at a time in honor of my then new book, The Plot Whisperer Book of Writing Prompts: Easy Exercises to Get You Writing.Then I was writing all about beginnings and, with the help of the prompts, slipped easily into the exotic world of the middle.I stopped writing shortly before the crisis scene in my story. No surprise there.Now, an urgency to finish cries out and I'm inspired to use November to …

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How to Plot and Write the Climax of Your Story

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Knowing how your story ends (in this case, the climax not the resolution) makes plotting and writing the beginning of a novel, memoir, screenplay easier than if you don't know the climax. Truth is, until you write the end—the climax—you do not have a clear grasp of what comes earlier. Notice I say "write the climax" not merely plot the climax, hence the most compelling of the 7 reasons to write a fast draft all the way through before going back .Folly, by award-winning mystery writer …

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