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Lara Morgan: Plot Wrangling and Highlighter Love . . .
One of the hardest things, for me, when writing a book is keeping the plot straight; by which I mean keeping track of it and making sure it makes sense. Which is probably why I always, and I mean...
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Beth Bernobich: Hello, Story
As I said in my last post, not all writing advice works for all writers. We each find the approach that works best for us, and for the project at hand. But! I do believe it’s useful to share our...
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Lisa Mantchev: On Plotting
The eternal plotting question: ARE YOU A PLANNER OR A PANTSER? In case you are unfamiliar with the latter phrase, “pantsers” (which isn’t a real word, I want everyone to know) are those who write “by...
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David B. Coe: The Plotter Pantses
I’m a plotter, and I have been for most of my career. I don’t outline every detail of my books. Far from it. I tend to write loose outlines that touch on the significant plot points of my narratives...
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Quick-Tip Tuesday: Finding Balance Between Plotting and Pantsing
Whether to outline or whether to just write the story — put another way, to plot or to pants. This is an ongoing discussion among writers, one that we’ve discussed here in the past. It’s actually more...
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By the seat of my pants
You’ve heard the discussion before, I’m sure. Is pantsing better or plotting? And I’m here to tell you, I have no idea. I can tell you my experience with both and what I wish for and what I’m doing...
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Inciting Event Redux
In the middle of the month, Faith talked about inciting events. She’s dead on and if you’ve forgotten what she said, go read it again. I’ll wait. At the time of reading that article, I was in the...
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