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Pre-NaNoWriMo Plot Key Scenes

Today’s Monday Plot Book Group (click to watch the video) covers four key scenes or, in the Universal Story, Energetic Markers that are found in every novel, memoir, screenplay.

As early as possible, attempt to identify these four energetic markers and then allow the rest of the story fall into place around these key scenes.
The energetic markers are:
End of the Beginning Scene
The Halfway Point Scene
The Crisis
The Climax
For step-by-step guidance into pre-plotting your novel, memoir, screenplay, refer to:
The Plot Whisperer: Secrets of Story Structure Any Writer Can Master
For more about the Universal Story and writing a novel, memoir or screenplay, visit the Monday Plot Book Group series(A directory to this 2nd plot series is to the left of this post and scroll down a bit) and visit the first Plot Series: How Do I Plot a Novel, Memoir, Screenplay?on YouTube. (A directory of all the steps to the 1st plot series is to the right of this post.)
and visit:
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Written by:
Martha Alderson
Published on:
October 11, 2011
Thoughts:
4 Comments

Categories: a memoir, key scenes in a novel, plot whisperer, pre-plot for NaNoWriMo, screenplays

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    October 11, 2011 at 2:36 pm

    I am starting my outlining and plotting this week!

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