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Having just left the Inciting Incident from my series Rough Story Arc, I’m now learning to form the First Plot Point. The First Plot Point of a story is …
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Following up on last week’s article Developing the Story Hook in my series Rough Story Arc, we’ll now discuss the Inciting Incident. What exactly is the “inciting incident”? The …
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This week I’m going to follow-up on last week’s article: Rough Story Arc, I’m going to do a little series on breaking down the individual components of it … …
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Do you use the Three (or Four) Act Structure in your writing? While I’m sure you’re aware of how to use the Three Act Structure with a beginning, middle, …
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This week I’ve been researching Dialogue Tags (also known as speech tags). First, what is a Dialogue Tag? It is a small phrase either before, after, or in between …
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This week I’ve been plagued by a lot of little plot bunnies and found it hard to work on my current stories. What exactly is a Plot Bunny? …
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Which helps you to focus on writing more, music or silence? Does music help you to create a certain mood that you’re going for in a scene? I used …
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If you’ve read my blog at all or you know me, then you know that I’m a little obsessed with The Hero’s Journey and all of its trappings. I …
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Happy New Year! For 2017 I set up a Writing Calendar with Stickers for my daily writing goals. I’ll get a silver star for every 250 words, a gold …
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I just read a great article over on Lifehacker by Walter Glenn called: How to Use Evernote for Writing Fiction! I personally already use Evernote with all my writing, …
