Writing References: Plot

Writing References: Plot

Basics: Plot Structure & Narrative Arcs

Basics: Plot & Other Elements of Creative Writing

Plot Methods: Save the Cat! ⚜ The Story Circle

Plot Development: The Transformation Test

Plot Twists ⚜ Types of Plot Twists ⚜ Subplots

Ten Story Genres ⚜ Elements of the 10 Story Genres

The Shape of Story ⚜ The Shapes of Stories by Kurt Vonnegut

Tips

From Margaret Atwood

From Rick Riordan

Editing

Chapter Maps

Plot Holes & Other Structural Issues

Self-Editing

For Inspiration

Character & Literary Tropes

Ways to Generate an Idea

Writing References: Character Development ⚜ World-building

I swear, once I get over my crippling writing anxiety, impossible expectations, and the baggage surrounding my idea of what a “writer” is…it’s over for you bitches.

me scrolling through all the march x farmer stuff just trying to find maryis stuff.

Me, writing something at 1 am: Omg I'm literally a genius this words sound amazing I ate totally whith this one omfg

The writing:

Tiny Tip #1

While writing your project for these writing events, if you find a mistake or want to re-word something, instead of the backspace button, consider using Strikethrough to remove scenes, lines of dialogue, etc, followed up with the corrected or shortened line.

Say for instance you're writing a description of something, and your main character remembers a previous encounter they had with x object, but on getting a bit further into your document, you glance up and reread that paragraph, and decide to remove the line where the character thought in too-much-detail about what the previous x looked like.

Instead of deleting the line entirely, use Strikethrough to mark the line off, and keep on writing; once your first draft is done, when you start re-reading your novel through from start to finish, you'll be able to see what you originally wrote, what you replaced it with, and be able to make a clearer decision when you decide to edit.

Expository writing is basically the drawing hands of prose fiction; it's clangingly obvious when it's done poorly, but it's even more awkward when you try to avoid doing it at all, and those who are best at it usually got to be that way because they have some kind of fetish.