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Control the Pacing of Your Novel, Memoir, Screenplay
What is the best way how to control the dramatic action scenes in your novel, memoir, screenplay? Plot the intensity of all the major events along the Plot Planner line. Rather than outline your plot...
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Plot Tip for the Middle of a Novel, Memoir, Screenplay
Plot tip for the middle of a novel-memoir-screenplay depends on overarching tension Do you use words like meddlesome, murky, sagging to describe the middle of an early draft of your novel, memoir, or...
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Plot from the End
Learn how to write from the beginning as you plot your story from the end. Writing for discovery benefits creativity and, without a clear idea of where your story is taking you, can quickly lead you...
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What Is Dramatic Action?
What Qualifies as Dramatic Action? Is dramatic action more than action? More than simply doing? What qualifies action as dramatic action? Just read the following feedback from a Beta-member following...
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The Ebb and Flow of Creativity
The ebb and flow of creativity affects us all. Some days you’re energized for writing and creating. Other days, you’re sluggish and uninspired. We tend to revel in the up days and beat ourselves up on...
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Writers Digest Named Plot Whisperer One of Its 101 Best Websites for Writers
+Writers Digest named Plot Whisperer one of its 101 Best Websites for Writers in 2015 The first time Plot Whisperer blog was named one of Writers Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers Award was in 2009....
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3 Common Plot Questions from Writers
Picking 3 Common Plot Questions from Writers wasn’t as easy as the request sounds - Jennie Nash, moderator for the Dream Team panel at last month’s LA Writers Conference, requested I send her 2-3 of...
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Hot Words at a Writing Retreat
Hot Words at a Writing Retreat This year’s WriterPath Retreat closed with an exercise that generated some terrific “hot” words. We sat in a circle as each writer pitched their concept, character...
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Managing Drama in Your Story and Your Life
Managing Drama in Your Story and Your Life We experience drama in the stories we read and in our everyday lives. The same chaos, struggle, anger, misunderstandings, miscommunications, betrayals and...
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How Not to Get Lost Writing the Middle of Your Novel, Memoir, Screenplay
How Not To Get Lost Writing the Middle of Your Novel, Memoir, Screenplay Writing the middle of a novel, memoir, screenplay gets a bad wrap from writers. Granted, it’s easy to get lost in the maze of...
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Backstory Wounds & Writers
Backstory Wounds and Writers As a plot consultant for writers, I’ve always been fascinated by characters’ backstory wounds and how they influence the plot of a novel, memoir, screenplay. Not all...
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Craft and Writer
Craft and Writer: two essential elements necessary for writing a story with a plot from beginning to end. The Plot Whisperer: Secrets of Story Structure Any Writer Can Master offers tips for the craft...
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How to Create Chemistry with Your Readers
How to Create Chemistry with Your Readers What is that mysterious tug that draws you near someone for no apparent reason? Some call that immediate and intense emotional attraction experienced by two...
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Hot Words at a Writing Retreat
Hot Words at a Writing Retreat This year’s WriterPath Retreat closed with an exercise that generated some terrific “hot” words. We sat in a circle as each writer pitched their concept, character...
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Writers Digest Named Plot Whisperer One of Its 101 Best Websites for Writers
+Writers Digest named Plot Whisperer one of its 101 Best Websites for Writers in 2015 The first time Plot Whisperer blog was named one of Writers Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers Award was in 2009....
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3 Common Plot Questions from Writers
Picking 3 Common Plot Questions from Writers wasn’t as easy as the request sounds - Jennie Nash, moderator for the Dream Team panel at last month’s LA Writers Conference, requested I send her 2-3 of...
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Frightened Writers
Watching my new neighbors (baby seagull stock image — “my” 3 are bigger – adolescents?) peer over the ledge and back away… not ready yet, got me to thinking about resistant and frightened writers who...
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Craft and Writer
Craft and Writer: two essential elements necessary for writing a story with a plot from beginning to end. The Plot Whisperer: Secrets of Story Structure Any Writer Can Master offers tips for the craft...
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How to Create Chemistry with Your Readers
How to Create Chemistry with Your Readers What is that mysterious tug that draws you near someone for no apparent reason? Some call that immediate and intense emotional attraction experienced by two...
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How to Write Happy
How to Write Happy I recently tweeted: “Steer clear of anyone who dampens your enthusiasm for writing,” and received back: “How do I steer clear of me?” So incredibly sad and heartbreakingly true,...
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