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How to Deal with a Time Jump in Your Novel, Memoir, Screenplay

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Upon entering the Middle of your novel, memoir, screenplay, if you have a time jump, this is where to make the jump.The end of the beginning scene you wrote based on Prompt 30 in The Plot Whisperer Book of Writing Prompts: Easy Exercises to Get You Writing moves your protagonist from the relative safety of the beginning into the exotic world the antagonists in the middle. In satisfying the reader's expectations for conflict and plot twists early-on in your story, the reader moves forward …

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Writer’s Block or Procrastination

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By Prompt 32 in The Plot Whisperer Book of Writing Prompts: Easy Exercises to Get You Writing you are beginning to better understand your story. You also understand how many holes you've created and you often feel like you're floating without a net. By now, you also appreciate the discipline it takes to write a story with a plot from beginning to end.Now you know or at least are beginning to suspect that the reason you procrastinate about writing has nothing to do with being blocked or …

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10 Tips to Immediately Create GREAT PLOTS

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For those of you who missed my talk at the 10th Annual SFWC, I share the handout.In Honor of the 10th Anniversary of the San Francisco Writers Conference10 Tips to Immediately Create GREAT PLOTS for Your Novel, Memoir, ScreenplayBy: Martha Alderson, aka Plot WhispererGREAT1) Generate external dramatic action excitement with a concrete goal for the character in every scene2) Rather than tell the protagonist’s backstory in summary, show what she is unable to do today because of her backstory …

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1st Energetic Marker & Major Turning Point in Your Story

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Prompt 30 in The Plot Whisperer Book of Writing Prompts: Easy Exercises to Get You Writing prompts you develop a scene showing the end of what has been in your novel, memoir, screenplay thus far. Next comes the middle where the real struggle begins. For some writers, you couldn't get to the end of the beginning scene quickly enough. You followed prompts 1- 6, creating scenes and developing characters and relationships, conflict and dramatic action, setting and theme. Then, about halfway through …

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Plot Survey: (This comes out of and in reaction to the affirmation in Prompt 21 in The Plot Whisperer Book of Writing Prompts: Easy Exercises to Get You Writing)1) How often do you find yourself berating rough draft words and scenes you write?AlwaysOftenSometimesSeldomNever2) How often do you find yourself honoring rough draft words and scenes you write as new gifts, invisible right up until the instant when they appear on the paper in front of you, as if by …

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