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Inventing Plot Complications

Every book on plotting says simply that you must have plot complications. But they don’t give much help on inventing interesting complications. Here are two things I’ve used as I’m working on this expanded outline for my new novel Look to Setting for Plot Complications One way of inventing plot complications is to look around [...]

Plotting Difficult Topics: Loss, action

This is part of a series of posts on Plotting Difficult Topics In Inviting the Wolf In: Thinking About Difficult Stories by Loren Niemi and Elizabeth Ellis, the authors recognize that how you approach a difficult subject can make huge differences in voice, POV, plot and resolution. They suggest 32 different approaches and this series [...]

Plotting Difficult Topics: Loss, Grief

This is part of a series of posts on Plotting Difficult Topics In Inviting the Wolf In: Thinking About Difficult Stories by Loren Niemi and Elizabeth Ellis, the authors recognize that how you approach a difficult subject can make huge differences in voice, POV, plot and resolution. They suggest 32 different approaches and this series [...]

Plotting Difficult Topics: Loss, guilt

This is part of a series of posts on Plotting Difficult Topics In Inviting the Wolf In: Thinking About Difficult Stories by Loren Niemi and Elizabeth Ellis, the authors recognize that how you approach a difficult subject can make huge differences in voice, POV, plot and resolution. They suggest 32 different approaches and this series [...]

Plotting Difficult Topics: Loss, denial

This is part of a series of posts on Plotting Difficult Topics In Inviting the Wolf In: Thinking About Difficult Stories by Loren Niemi and Elizabeth Ellis, the authors recognize that how you approach a difficult subject can make huge differences in voice, POV, plot and resolution. They suggest 32 different approaches and this series [...]

Plotting Difficult Topics: Wickedness, action

This is part of a series of posts on Plotting Difficult Topics In Inviting the Wolf In: Thinking About Difficult Stories by Loren Niemi and Elizabeth Ellis, the authors recognize that how you approach a difficult subject can make huge differences in voice, POV, plot and resolution. They suggest 32 different approaches and this series [...]

Plotting Difficult Topics: Wickedness, grief

This is part of a series of posts on Plotting Difficult Topics In Inviting the Wolf In: Thinking About Difficult Stories by Loren Niemi and Elizabeth Ellis, the authors recognize that how you approach a difficult subject can make huge differences in voice, POV, plot and resolution. They suggest 32 different approaches and this series [...]

Plotting Difficult Topics: Wickedness, Guilt

This is part of a series of posts on Plotting Difficult Topics In Inviting the Wolf In: Thinking About Difficult Stories by Loren Niemi and Elizabeth Ellis, the authors recognize that how you approach a difficult subject can make huge differences in voice, POV, plot and resolution. They suggest 32 different approaches and this series [...]

Plotting Difficult Topics: Wickedness, denial

This is part of a series of posts on Plotting Difficult Topics. In Inviting the Wolf In: Thinking About Difficult Stories by Loren Niemi and Elizabeth Ellis, the authors recognize that how you approach a difficult subject can make huge differences in voice, POV, plot and resolution. They suggest 32 different approaches and this series [...]

Plotting Difficult Topics

You want to write a novel, but the topic that haunts you is a difficult one. You can’t figure out an approach to the story that will let you say what you want to say. You need to experiment with different approaches. Difficult Stories: Approaches In Inviting the Wolf In: Dealing with Difficult Stories, the [...]

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