Plotting Your Novel
Plotting is the arrangement of events that occur in your story.
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29 Plot Templates
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- Plotting: The Messy Doorway to Story
- Subplots: Keeping Other Story Lines in Check
- Does Your Scene Pivot: Creating Turning Points
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Worldbuilding: Timeline Adds Crucial Details
- Pacing: Space out the Tense Moments
- Scenes: The Skeleton of a Novel
- 6 Questions to Sharpen Your Story Beats and Make Your Plot Sing
- Don’t Plot Like I Do!
- General to Specific: From One Sentence to a Plot
- Thanks, Optimus Prime: What the Transformers Can Teach Us About Plot
- What Went Wrong? Story Conflict and How to Make it Stronger
- Good-bye Confusing Subplot, Hello Book Contract
- Chase: A Fast-Paced Plot
- 5 Quotes to Plot Your Novel By
- Timelines: Plotting
- Plotting the Middle with the Hero’s Journey
- Master Plot for Pacing, Characterization and Action
- Bad, Worse, Worst: Plan your Plots
- Why Now? Believable Plots
- Revise for Focus: Plot and Subplot in the Right Proportions
- SubPlots Deepen and Enrich Stories: Here’s How
- Plotting Act 2: 23 Ways to Defeat the Sagging Middle!
- PLOT: You MUST be Brutal
- End of Act I: 5 Functions Determine Plot
- 2 Questions to Develop Plot: What If? and What Next?
- Act 1: Lists and Discussions
- Best 9 Tips on Plotting a Novel in Verse: Advice from Caroline Starr Rose
- Plotting is Like a Jigsaw Puzzle
- Too Many Subplots? 3 Tips for Cutting
- Unlovable Characters
- 3-Act Structure: Solving a Top-Heavy Problem
- Developing Plot
- The Mesh of Plot and Subplot
- Goal v. Fighting for Something Positive
- Enrich a Story Plot
- Novel Pacing=Constant Change
- Combine 2 Plots?
- Scene Quiz: Harvard Bar Scene
- Dissect a Scene
- Plot, Plot Layers, Subplot
- 5 Plotting Mistakes
- Plotting with Scenes
- Agent Wants Plot
- 29 Plot Templates
- Outline level of Plot
- Plot & Character
- Plot maze
- Plot: My personal approach
- Plot: Software
- Plot Enhancers
- 4 More Plot Variations
- Plot: Characters v. Patterns
- Fatal Backstory
- Don’t Avoid the Emotion
- Outline scenes
- How to Use Scenes to Plot
- See How Easily You Can Subplot
- Novels That Spaghetti
- Page 32
- Revising the Outline
- Novel Revision for Lovers
- Backstory’s Emotional Weight
- Inventing Plot Complications
- Plotting Difficult Topics: Loss, action
- Plotting Difficult Topics: Loss, Grief
- Plotting Difficult Topics: Loss, guilt
- Plotting Difficult Topics: Loss, denial
- Plotting Difficult Topics: Wickedness, action
- Plotting Difficult Topics: Wickedness, grief
- Plotting Difficult Topics: Wickedness, Guilt
- Plotting Difficult Topics: Wickedness, denial
- Plotting Difficult Topics
- Outlining Fiction
- Shrunken Manuscript v. Spreadsheet Plotting
- Spreadsheet plotting
- Knitting Subplots Together
- Tie up loose ends
- Powerful Endings
- Connecting Emotional and Narrative Arcs
- Plot Twists
- Thinking up Twist Endings
- Twist endings
- Focus Your Story Development
- Pacing
- Novel Diagnosis–Plot
- Hero’s Journey
- Revising Outlines
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