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Blueprint Series Part 5: Main Plot Points
(I’m not sure what happened with the scheduling of this post, but I apologize for the delay and for the fact that it’ll be two today with another one this afternoon.) If you’ve been following, you’re...
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Blueprint Series Part 10: Fleshing Out Part 2
If you’re like me, you have some solid ideas for the beginning and ending of your story, but the middle is a little bit mushy. I’ve found that there’s nothing like a little story architecture to help...
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Blueprint Series Part 11: Fleshing Out Part 3
I hope yesterday’s post helped you start to think through what my CP calls “The Valley of the Shadow of the Middle.” Middles are hard for a lot of writers. Today we’ll be working our way through the...
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Blueprint Series part 12: Fleshing Out Part 4
You know what you need to bring your story to a conclusion, but how are you going to make that into a whole quarter of your story? Does it have to be? We’re going to talk about that and some other...
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Blueprint Series part 13: Battling Threads
Now that we’ve learned how to plot from beginning to end, I’m going to talk about what to do with the subplots and other threads you might have hanging around in your story. (For Part 1 in this series,...
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Fire bad, tree pretty, sequel hard
It seems simple enough, right? You already know a bunch of your characters, you’re comfortable in your world, you’ve got a solid story under your belt, and you know what you’re doing, right? Oh, no....
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Setups, Flawed Characters, Ginger or Maryann?
Last night I finally got my files uploaded for the print version. They’ve been reviewed, and I had a problem with my title page, so I have to get that fixed this morning, and then upload the interior...
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The Facebook 15 Authors Meme
I’ve been tagged twice for this on Facebook. Maybe after I finish up here I’ll figure out how to do it there. You’re supposed to write a list of 15 authors who have influenced you and will always stick...
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