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A Novel Idea
Welcome to A Novel Idea!
Welcome to A Novel Idea
The Plotting Workshop: The Basics
Welcome to The Plotting Workshop
What Inspires You?
Characters
Setting
Three Acts and Eight Sequences
The Plotting Workshop: The Hero's Journey
A Little About Act 1
The Ordinary World
The Call to Adventure
Refusal of the Call
Meeting the Mentor
Crossing the Threshold
A Little About the Second Act
Tests, Allies, and Enemies
Approach to the Inmost Cave
The Ordeal
The Reward
A Little About Act 3
The Road Back
Resurrection
Return with the Elixir
The Plotting Workshop: 30 Scenes
The Five Key Plot Points
30 Scenes (Act 1)
30 Scenes (Act 2)
30 Scenes (Act 3)
The Plotting Workshop: Plot Board
Making Your Plot Board
Scenes for Act 1
Scenes for Act 2
Scenes for Act 3
The Plotting Workshop: Synopsis
Write A Synopsis
Writing: Sequence 1
Let's Write This Thing
Sequence One Basics
Dealing With Writer's Block and Your Inner Editor
The Contract With Your Reader
Thought Verbs
Show Don't Tell
Scene vs. Exposition
Resist the Urge to Explain
The Inciting Incident
Finishing Up Sequence One
Writing: Sequence 2
Sequence Two Basics
Character Wants and Needs
Getting to Yes
Moving Into the Special World
Throwing Stones
The Narrative Dream
Getting Through the Want to the Need
Introducing the Mentor
Read Out Loud
Writing: Sequence 3
Sequence Three Basics
Subplots
Recovering from a Set Back
Testing Your Hero
Plants and Payoffs
Update Your Plot Board
Allies and Enemies
Writing Dialogue
Avoiding Wordiness
Writing: Sequence 4
Sequence Four Basics
All About Verbs
All In For Your Hero
A Word About Voice
Mid-Point Mirror
Descriptive Writing
On Being Mean to Your MC
The Mid-Point Climax
A Celebration for your Hero
Pushing Through
Writing: Sequence 5
Sequence Five Basics
The Bar Scene
Keeping Up With Your Subplots
Romance
The Inmost Cave
Rising Action
An Impossible Thing
Breaking the Hero
Higher Stakes
Combat Act 2 Drag
Writing: Sequence 6
Sequence Six Basics
A Taste of Death
Villain as Hero
Your Hero's Greatest Fear
Pacing & The Main Climax
The Reward
Moving Into Act 3
Writing: Sequence 7
Sequence 7 Basics
Who Saves the Day?
The Campfire Scene
The Antagonist's Story
The Third Act Twist
The Road Back
Writing: Sequence 8
Sequence 8 Basics
The Resurrection
Character Arc
A New Ordinary
The Return
The End!
Editing
Welcome to the Editing Module!
Start with a Read Through
Show and Tell
Exposition
POV and Place In Time
Resist the Urge to Explain
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