« Dunbar's number and online social networks | Main | Faster fiber to the home » It's a plot!DIY Planner tells how to use a subset of the site's productivity forms to plot fiction, drawing on best practices of fiction writers. [Link] The plot concept --for which you can use the Story Idea card-- is often the best place to start. The "summary" area is where you should distill your plot into a few succinct sentences. Just a few sentences? But I have lots of great ideas! I need more than a few sentences! Sure, it's wonderful to have lots of ideas (you did bring your journal or notebook, didn't you?), but the idea here is to bring focus to the task. Too many stories wander off in a dozen different directions with no coherent plot or theme, and the writer often becomes so frustrated with attempting to say so many things that he or she will often drop the whole endeavour. So, right now, your primary duty at this early stage is to tie all your little vague threads together into a unified whole. jon posted this at 7:18 AM |
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