June 4, 2022
If you’ve read my post on revising with a plan, you know I’m a big advocate of using story structure and plot beats to whip your […]
November 8, 2022
It’s the beginning of the second week of NaNoWriMo and I, like many of you, am waist deep in a word pit of snarled sentences, tacky descriptions, hurried notes, and character motivations which make absolutely no sense. This week, instead of providing a beautifully sculpted piece of prose about the finer points of POV, plot, narrative style, or character development, I’m going to do my best to help you make sense of the word pit you’ve stumbled into and provide a quick few tips to help you keep your plot points straight, even when you're a quarter of the way through your draft and the plot points aren't what you thought. Are you ready?
November 21, 2022
Hello Fellow Word-Nerds! For all of you Word-Nerds who are stuck right now, here’s a quick guide to the major plot points of a story. Sometimes, having a rough outline of all the things I have to do helps kickstart my writing, so maybe this will help you too!