Essentials / Discovering Your Plot / 4:41

Every plot has a beginning / middle / end. Tensions and suspense drive each of these sections.

Plotting prose? Poetry? That choice doesn’t matter in narrative. Telling a story is the focus, and all stories are formed through a series of scenes and sequels, which bridge between scenes.

Two things control the main plot and each subplot. These are the heart and the brain that will drive every scene and its sequel. The heart is the theme which is the key to unlock the brain, our conflict that controls the plot.

These are the four plotting essentials. Theme. Conflict. Scene. Sequel.

Timing

• 00:00 Welcome
• 00:40 Opening Words
• 01:31 Theme
• 06:32 Conflict
• 12:36 Scene & Sequel
• 20:00 Last Words and Closing

Link to Dwight Swain’s Techniques of the Selling Writer https://www.amazon.com/Techniques-Selling-Writer-Dwight-Swain/dp/0806111917/

Link to Think like a Pro: 7 Lessons for Writers by the host M.A. Lee https://books2read.com/u/4AxWAd or

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DYJDY5S/    

Links to the Ebook Discovering Your Plot

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0838PTN49

https://books2read.com/u/bOJK6K

Links to a paperback 8 x 10 bundle for plot / characters / branding / sentence craft, called Discovering Your Writing https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08691892S

Trailer https://youtu.be/hTVQn92kNBk

 

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Our current focus is Discovering Your Plot, from host M.A. Lee’s guidebook of the same name.

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