In early November, I wrote about Characters in Action-Driven Novels and Those in Character-Driven Stories. A few nights ago, …
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Plot Whisperer Martha Alderson’s PlotWriMo: Revise Your Novel in a Month with Literary Agent Jill Corcoran
Seven years ago, I began offering the beta version of PlotWriMo for novelists who were word-drunk from NaNoWriMo. Over the years I …
The Universal Story: As Your Story Evolves, You Evolve Too
Universal is characteristic of the whole, covering the entire collective, everyone and everything. Story is an account of events …
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Plot Twists: What Are They and How to Plot Them
The straight and well-defined line of the Plot Planner is an attempt to control the twistier and often blurry reality of the …
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