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(NOTE: Give yourself time. Finding your own authentic voice isn't always easy. Especially if you've never expressed it much before...)
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(NOTE to Writers: think of your writing as a layering. Get the first layer down. Finished first draft allows for the next layer to go on.)
about 23 hours ago
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(NOTE to WRITERS: write what comes to you. Don't censor yourself. Let it be crap. Trust the process.)
about 23 hours ago
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Bolstering writers who falter. Slogging through the 1st draft.
6:53 PM Nov 12th
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1/2 pt. = commits to journey. Things get a bit better. But, they're about to get way worse = Crisis (3/4)
9:02 AM Nov 12th
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Week 2: 1 day from 1/2 pt., the moment MC consciously makes total commitment to achieve goal & burns all bridges back = only forward now.
7:48 AM Nov 12th
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Week 2: by now protagonist may have redefined long-term story goal. Either way, goal determines necessary steps (scenes) toward achievement.
10:17 AM Nov 11th
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Wanna-be talks about what she is going to write, intends to write, wishes to write, hopes to write, dreams of writing. Writers write.
8:43 AM Nov 10th
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1st draft is like a fragile dream. Honor it and hold it close. Easy trap to fall into = talk it to death. No energy left for the writing...
8:36 AM Nov 10th
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1/4 of Novel Writing mo gone. Out of the Beginning & into Middle. Strive to hit the major scene markers.
8:17 AM Nov 9th
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Setting as character is powerful & warrants a character profile and plotting its arch.
7:07 AM Nov 7th
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Writer coming all the way from Ireland for LA plot workshop 11/15. Join us!
5:11 PM Nov 5th
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Movie studio based in LA/Atlanta contacted me re: plot services. A secret dream of mine is beginning to crystalize...Am filled w/ gratitude.
10:32 AM Nov 5th
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5 Benefits of Writing a Truly Awful, Lousy 1st Draft
6:57 AM Nov 5th
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Characters defined by actions. Begin = intro. Middle = antagonists deepen. End = victim or victor??
6:43 AM Nov 5th
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Writers: Passive vs Active. Transformation never easy. Steadily march your protagonist toward the exotic world & into the mouth of the lion.
9:35 AM Nov 4th
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Writers: so much easier to research than to write it all down?? Passive vs Active. Transformation is never easy...
8:38 AM Nov 4th
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MC transforms from DA. No conflict tension suspense, story does not move and character does not change.
7:01 AM Nov 3rd
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YES: Cause & Effect = because this happens in scene, this happens next. NO: Episodic = this happens, then this happens, then this happens.
3:49 PM Nov 1st
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Every character is a reflection of protagonist's unresolved issues. Until she confronts and resolves issues, her outer goal is out of reach.
6:15 AM Oct 30th
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- Name Martha Alderson
- Location Monterey Bay Area
- Web http://plotwhispe...
- Bio Founder of Blockbuster Plots for Writers, plot consultant, Plot Whisperer voted 101 Best Websites for Writers 2009
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