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how to create a plot planner for your novel | Memoir | screenplay | The Plot Whisperer Book of Writing Prompts: Easy Exercises to Get You Writing

Time Out to Create a Plot Planner
ByMartha Alderson February 5, 2013

Beginning with Prompt 6 in The Plot Whisperer Book of Writing Prompts: Easy Exercises to Get You Writing,…

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Resistance to Maximizing Crisis
ByMartha Alderson January 30, 2013

Not just sweet SCBWI writers experience resistance to putting their protagonists in true peril. At last Sunday’s CWC Blockbuster Plots…

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Conflict, Tension, Suspense and / or Curiosity
ByMartha Alderson January 14, 2013

You introduced a broad view of the setting of your story in Prompt #2. In response to the…

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Writing Forward without Going Back
ByMartha Alderson January 3, 2013

Writing Prompt #2 in The Plot Whisperer Book of Writing Prompts: Easy Exercises to Get You Writing allows you to…

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