Story as a Graph
Can you draw your story as a graph? From Freytag to Vonnegut, writers and coaches will tell you stories have […]
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Can you draw your story as a graph? From Freytag to Vonnegut, writers and coaches will tell you stories have […]
They want it, they can’t get it, and time is running out; this is the Mid-Point Plot-Knot. This is the
Revising my novella, I discovered I’m writing about sisterhood as theme over plot. Who knew? Not me, it began as
My novella hit problems a while back, entirely from exceeding the MICE quotient. I tried to pack too much into
Avoiding the Idiot Plot: in which characters behave like idiots. Logic and good sense go AWOL. Along with the reader’s
How do you define a solid three-stage book plan without writing a single line of the novel? Abigail Perry presented
What is the difference between scene and story goals? What happens when these don’t align? Do they exist in your
One of the sessions of last year’s writers’ summits covered revision planning with Troy Lambert. At Daniel David Wallace’s Revising
Explosive beginning, great ending, so why does your novel suffer from Sagging Middle Syndrome? Listen to the audio version on
If there genuinely are no new stories, only new twists, then what counts as plot clichés to avoid? From Booktuber