A Solid Three-Stage Book Plan
How do you define a solid three-stage book plan without writing a single line of the novel? Abigail Perry presented […]
Structure
Posts on story structure
Revision Planning with Troy Lambert
One of the sessions of last year’s writers’ summits covered revision planning with Troy Lambert. At Daniel David Wallace’s Revising
The Skeleton Draft
Navigating a path from start to finish of a novel can be hard for both plotters and free-writers; enter the
Cure Sagging Middle Syndrome
Explosive beginning, great ending, so why does your novel suffer from Sagging Middle Syndrome? Listen to the audio version on
Dan Wells’ Seven-Point Story Structure
Dan Wells’ Seven-Point Story Structure came from the author’s 2010 BYU presentation. Taking his cue from the Star Trek Roleplaying
Turning Points and Plot Points
All story structures include turning points and plot points. Whether it has seven, seventeen or twenty-four chapters, somewhere in that
Avoiding Prologues and Exposition
Can you write certain genres while avoiding prologues and exposition? So many prologues, so little time… to get the reader
How to End a Chapter
After sentences, paragraphs, and scenes, the next question is how to end a chapter? A vital building block in delivering
Bridging Scenes Don’t Exist
Controversial opinion coming up: bridging scenes don’t exist. The notion of a ‘bridging scene’ came from a comment on a
How to Structure a Scene
As the link between individual sentences and whole chapters, you have to know how to structure a scene. Because scenes