Today, your assignment, if you choose to say yes, is to carry your Plot Planner index cards and a pencil or pen with you everywhere.
I see you standing in line at the post office and the grocery store serenely grateful for the wait because it allows you more time to ponder your story. I see you waiting in the dentist's office or in thick traffic with your eyes up and to the left glazed over as inspiration fills you. I see you unplugging from negative thoughts about that nasty brother-in-law coming for dinner and plugging into your story instead.
- Story is all about character transformation. How has your protagonist been transformed by the Dramatic Action in the story?
- What is your story really saying? What do all those words you wrote add up to?
- Your story is a reflection of a truth. Not necessarily true for all time, but true for the story itself, and likely for yourself, too. What is the deeper meaning? The truth beyond the physical?
- How do the three major plot lines contribute to the overall meaning of the story?
- How do the secondary plot lines support the major plot line thematically?
- How do the secondary characters' journeys mirror the protagonist's journey?
- Does the setting in the ordinary world and the setting in the exotic world support the theme?
- What elements in the Beginning (1/4) echo back in the End (1/4)
To proclaim 3rd Annual International Plot Writing Month in December and not mention the holidays is like standing mute in a room filled with angels and trolls. In our zeal to capture the holidays just right we run ourselves ragged. Part of this impulse is running from the darkness as the days turn shorter and shorter. It echoes back thousands of years to our fear that the failing light would never return without our intervention.
Fitting in writing time becomes more and more impossible as we await the rebirth of the sun and as the year winds down. Instead of fighting what
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I continue to be amazed at the information on this blog, and its psychic abilities. How did you know that I am tired of writing? That I needed permission to think about all those scenes? That it was encouraging to see that most scenes are in place and... how did you know that I had not written the climax yet?
I hadn't written my Climax. I had no idea what to do. I decided to approach it NaNo style and pumped out as many possible or impossible scenarios as I could. I picked one and subjected myself to Write Or Die and created a vague and imperfect first draft of my main climax. I think mine has two...hmmm
Anyway thank you so much. This whole journey has been inspirational