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Forming the First Plot Point

J.J. Hartly February 26, 2017 No Comments
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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Investigating the Inciting Incident

J.J. Hartly February 19, 2017 No Comments
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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Developing the Story Hook

J.J. Hartly February 12, 2017 1 Comment
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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Rough Story Arc – Structuring Your Novel

J.J. Hartly February 5, 2017 No Comments
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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The “He said, She said” of using Dialogue Tags

J.J. Hartly January 29, 2017 2 Comments
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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The Proper Care (& feeding) of Your Plot Bunny

J.J. Hartly January 22, 2017 No Comments
  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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Writing Muse: Music versus Silence

J.J. Hartly January 15, 2017 No Comments
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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Hero Tropes Checklist on the Hero’s Journey

J.J. Hartly January 8, 2017 2 Comments
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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My Goals for 2017

J.J. Hartly January 1, 2017 1 Comment
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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Evernote – the Author’s Ultimate Companion

J.J. Hartly December 18, 2016 No Comments
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, …
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