Plot books and eBooks for writers ready to improve their craft of plotting and writing in scene. Books and eBooks with emotional support for everyone ready to embrace more creativity and passion in your life.
Writing Paperbacks
Writing Blockbuster Plots: A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering Plot, Structure, and Scene
For most writers, the most difficult part of the writing process is the inability to see the forest for the trees. Writing Blockbuster Plots dedicates itself to the structure of plot and has already helped hundreds of novelists, memoirists, and creative non-fiction writers master this elusive craft. Two innovative tools — the Scene Tracker and Plot Planner — help you create a visual representation of the layers of your story and consequently see what’s missing, and anticipate your characters’ every move, so that the dramatic action doesn’t peter off into the seductive wiles of detail.
“Writing Blockbuster Plots is exceptional and very highly recommended for aspiring writers.” —Midwest Book Review
Writing Deep Scenes: Plotting Your Story Through Action, Emotion, & Theme
Writing Deep Scenes teaches you how to write strong, layered, and engaging scenes, the key to memorable, page-turning plots. It’s filled with practical tools for building layers and nuance into your scenes, employing the right scene types at the right junctures in the story, and developing a profound understanding of how plot and scene intertwine. Using contemporary scene examples from a variety of genres, Writing Deep Scenes provides an integrated understanding of how to plot at the scene level and take your writing to new depths.
The Plot Whisperer: Secrets of Story Structure Any Writer Can Master
The first book in the Plot Whisperer series of plot reference books for writers. The Plot Whisperer helps novelists, memoirists, and screenwriters develop multiple scenes and plots and create the structure for their stories, explains plot concepts and what it takes to write a story from beginning to end. The Plot Whisperer also teaches the Universal Story: where to spot it and how to use it to create better stories and enhance creativity.
The Plot Whisperer Workbook: Step-by-Step Exercises to Help You Create Compelling Stories
The second book in the Plot Whisperer series and companion workbook for The Plot Whisperer: Secrets of Story Structure Any Writer Can Master. Turn lackluster plots into irresistible stories! This writing workbook covers everything from constructing spirited action and compelling characters to establishing an unforgettable ending. Develop a successful narrative through a series of exercises. Filled with essential advice and writing exercises, The Plot Whisperer Workbook will quickly become your go-to guide for crafting a tale worthy of the bestseller list!
The Plot Whisperer Book of Writing Prompts: Easy Exercises to Get You Writing
The Plot Whisperer Book of Writing Prompts gives you the inspiration and motivation you need to finish every one of your writing projects. This 3rd book in the Plot Whisperer series takes all the concepts you’ve learned in The Plot Whisperer and the plot you created in The Plot Whisperer Workbook and guides you through each stage of the actual writing process, from constructing compelling characters to establishing an unforgettable ending, and helps you get into the habit of writing creatively every day. Follow the prompts and write a novel, memoir, or screenplay with a plot from page one all the way to the end.
Writing EBooks
Focused, practical guides available as eBooks. Several are free on Kindle Unlimited.
Scene Tracker Template & Plot Tutorial for the 7 Essential Elements of Scene
The Scene Tracker Template is designed for novelists, screenwriters, and memoirists who wish to track the plot layers of every scene with an eye on the 7 essential elements of scene, creating complex characters and compelling dramatic action and rich thematic details and depth. Scenes carry the weight of your plot. Along with the template is a brief explanation and tutorial on how to use the Scene Tracker. You’ll be tracking your scenes within minutes. A sample Scene Tracker using Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden has been filled out for you, Post-it Notes and all. Print out the template with the free Adobe reader. If you wish to save the work you will need Adobe Professional.
Before Your Next Draft: 26 Plot Steps to Revision Plot
Finished a draft of your novel, memoir, or screenplay? Next, rather than simply rewrite, first revise. Revision is a critical step before rewriting a next draft. Before the Next Draft eBook is designed for novelists, screenwriters, and memoirists who wish to re-vision a draft of their story with an eye on plot and structure and offers concrete tips for revisioning your story by creating complex characters, compelling dramatic action, and rich thematic details and depth. Follow step-by-step the 31 plot steps to produce a superior plot.
How to Plot for Romance Writers
How to Plot for Romance Writers eBook shows romance writers how to produce superior plots. Using scenes from Christine Dodd’s Candle in the Window and Kathrynn Dennis’ Dark Rider, the Plot Planner and Scene Tracker plot tools are demonstrated for writers. How to Plot for Romance Writers eBook offers concrete tips for creating a compelling romance, complex characters, dramatic action, and thematic details and depth.
Blockbuster Plots Pure & Simple: Take the Panic Out of Plot
Discover how to create sizzling scenes and a multi-layered plot for your screenplay, novel, memoir, children’s, or young adult novel. This original Blockbuster Plots reference book takes you step-by-step through the building of both a Scene Tracker to track all your scenes for the 7 essential elements of scene, and a Plot Planner to plan your plot.
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