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Scene Descriptions
Scenes are the building blocks of novels. That makes them important. You pantsers can ignore this blog. I’m talking about plotting a story out. I use a form that I created to do this work. The form has a name,…
Tagged with: writing, Writing Techniques, description, scenes, scene descriptions, writing scenes, writing background work
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
When The Words Won’t Come
This blog is about the dreaded writer’s block. We all suffer from it. Of course we don’t suffer all at the same time, but we do suffer from it. You’ll be writing and without warning. There. Are. No. More. Words.…
Tagged with: fiction writing, scenes, words, writer's block, writing, writing revision, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Beat Sheet Deep Dive Act III
Act three is also called synthesis. It has three beats. This part fuses the first two acts. Things finally get fixed here. It starts about eighty percent of the way in the story. There is a breakthrough. The hero finally…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
The Beat Sheet Deep Dive: Act II pt 2
We are examining the beat sheet in detail. This is the second part of our dive into the second act. The second act is where we find the bulk of the story. We’re at the point of a plot twist.…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
The Beat Sheet Deep Dive: Act II pt 1
Welcome to the next part of our deep dive into the beat sheet. We’ve looked at the beats that make up the first act. Now it’s time for the second act. This is where things get real for the main…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
The Beat Sheet Deep Dive: Act I
The next beat is to state the theme. This needs to be subtle. Don’t have anyone in the story say it aloud, so to speak. Show it. Don’t tell the reader. No one in life says my life is about…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
The Beat Sheet: An Overview
When you are starting a story, you need to know approximately where things should happen. It helps you to maintain the pacing of your story. There is a great tool for this process — the beat sheet. I use a…
Tagged with: beat sheet, plots, plotting, plotting techniques, story beats, story techniques, story writing, writing, Writing Techniques
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Managing Your Writing Time
If you are like me, you are juggling a lot of ideas, written drafts, brainstorming, and other writing tasks. You may feel as though there isn’t enough time to deal with it all. It is easy to manage your tasks…
Tagged with: time management, writing, Writing Techniques, writing time, writing time management
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Creating Believable Characters
Characters can be fun to create. You want your heroes to be heroic and your villains to be villainous. Right? Of course. In the real world, though, no one is all good or all bad. Humans are a mixture of…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
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