The Summer issue of the San Francisco Writers Conference Newsletter arrived today. Thank you, Barb, for so generously announcing the book launch party for the PWWorkbook with a link to this blog for more information.You're Invited!Book Launch Party for The Plot Whisperer Workbook: Step-by-step Exercises to Help You Create Compelling StoriesBookshop Santa Cruz1520 Pacific AvenueSanta Cruz831-423-09007:30 p.m. ***Come for the cake. Leave with 5 Easy Plot Tips To Immediately …
A Tale of Two Cities Plot Review
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens has sold more than 200 million copies and remained in print for more than 150 years.Dickens brings alive an important turning point in world history when the poor and disenfranchised prevailed against the status quo. He accomplishes this not only through his incredible gift with words, he succeeds by showing the reader the times through the characters' relationships with one another. Through these relationships, he provides incredible plot twists and, …
Directory of Plot Series on YouTube
How Do I Plot a Novel, Memoir, Screenplay? was met with such an enthusiastic response that we continued filming, creating new plot series to reinforce and build on the first one. Overtime, we found that each new series seemed to bury the old ones until all the plot series became a muddled mess.Now, having mastered the concept of Playlists on Youtube, we have organized the different series for your viewing enjoyment and to help you pick and choose the videos that will best support your writing …
Subplots Fall Into Place
A fantastic subplot -- both riveting and taking place in an exotic locale -- spans from the beginning of the Middle to nearly the Crisis toward the end of the Middle. Based on the proposed length of the book, she has nearly 7,000 words left to write to reach the beginning of the End.The writer begins to integrate a minor subplot that has wandered from draft to draft without a firm place in the historical novel the writer envisions and without any real purpose. Still, the writer clutches fast and …
Interwoven Plot Lines
A writer has developed a complex dramatic action plot with terrific pacing and lots of excitement. Often he struggles when asked why the protagonist does what he does. He becomes especially flummoxed when the probing deepens. Yes, the protagonist takes the action he takes to advance the dramatic action. What in the protagonist's character emotional development makes that action real to him and him alone? The particular writer I mention here is a male writer writing a dramatic action-driven …
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