Something for every writer
Explore resources designed to support your plot development journey at any stage. Whether you’re just starting out, navigating through a challenging section (on entire manuscript), or revising/ polishing a completed draft, we’ve assembled resources for an effective starting points. Below, you’ll find three key articles that serve as a roadmap through our extensive content.
What’s the Plot
A Primer
The essentials of plot development to you understand the foundational elements of creating compelling plots. Ideal primer whether this is your first or fiftieth title.
I’ve lost the plot!
Help is on the way!
Helpful, targeted strategies to guide you through those times when you’re struggling with the direction or pacing of your story.
Analyze my plot.
Deep Dive
Apply these advanced techniques to your completed draft for analysis and revision or just geek out as you learn more about plot and story structure.
Boundless Creativity
A transformational guide that leads you—step by step—on a spiritual journey toward living your best, most creative life.
Creativity engages our imagination and opens us up to thinking differently. It frees us from the constraints of everyday life, allowing us to access a part of ourselves that is not ruled by time, pressures, or conditions. It’s no wonder many of us long for more of it in our lives. When creative energy flows through us, it connects us to our deepest selves, as well as the world around us.
Be careful what you say about yourself. Your spirit hears your every word.
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Crisis and the Universal Story
Originally published September 19, 2014 Beware: Do not succumb to a personal crisis as protagonist reaches darkest moment. Evoke the emotion in your writing The recent tweet elicited a question…
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The Existential Crisis in Stories
The 3rd Energetic Marker — The Crisis / Dark Night — is more or less a fixed moment in the Universal Story. Whether this major turning point is an existential crisis depends…
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Collateral Beauty — A Plot Review
Originally published May 17, 201 A sign of a great movie, just like that of a great book, is enough character depth, plot twists, and thematic nuances to invite you…
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15 Tips to Create a Compelling Plot for Your Story
In scanning past workshops I’ve done for the Society of Children Book Writers to come up with a blurb for the presentation I’ve been invited to share with the Los Angeles Chapter,…
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A Soul Shattering Tip: How to Plot the End of Your Novel, Memoir, Screenplay
Originally posted June 10, 2014 October 17, 1989, at 5:04:15 p.m. (PDT), the epicenter of a magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit nearly smack in my garden. The doorframe I clutched shifted…
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5 Revision Tips
Originally shared; July 6, 2017 I admit it — I really, really, really want to get to the rewrite! Dive into the words, hang ten with them, splash, frolic, crash,…
