New Blog Series?
Between the all-nighter I pulled last week to finish writing A Case for Love and now concentrating on revisions/edits, I’m pretty brain-dead right now. But within the next couple of weeks, I’d like to start a new craft-of-writing series. Back in January, I posted the list of topics I’d already thought of for the year. I’ve done the “Becoming a Writer” and the POV topics. That leaves Plot and the series about Writing Bad Guys from that list. But since my goal was to do NINE teaching series this year (I think I’m going to count the MFR/RH background posts from June as a series), I need to do one a month every month through the end of the year. Some of will necessarily be shorter than others, but I wanted to get feedback from y’all to see what topics you might be interested in. Or if there’s a series I’ve already done (check on the Writing Series Index) that you’d like to see a further study on.
So what topics of fiction writing would you like to study this year?
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Kaye, since I’m having trouble with the plot of my WIP, I’d love a series on plotting. Specifically, how to get out of the corner and back on track. I know generally how the story ends, but kind of stuck on how to get there from where it is. (My head hurts now.)
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YES, YES, YES! Or how to develop a germ of an idea into a full plot. Brainstorming…you know. Plotting is THE WORST PART of writing for me. I have a million little smidgets of ideas but it’s not like bam, I get an entire plot crashing on my brain in one sitting. Plotting for my WIP took two years–I wrote out the first draft in three months. So yeah. I’m not a million full plots swirling in my head type of person, and I would love a series on good plotting/brainstorming!!!!!!
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Hi Kaye,
I would love to know more about plotting, in particular your take on the scenes and sequel things we hear so much about, about the 3 acts, etc.
What about chapter separations within the chapter, you know, when to put space when shifting to another scene and when a “real” separation occurs, then how to determine that a chapter is complete. Some authors have very lengthy chapters, and others rather short. It’s hard to know what to do.
There is a lot of advice out there, and I think I can manage some of the time, but I really love the way you clarify things.
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Carla–
Some of what you’ve mentioned is covered in the Hooking the Reader series, which you can find on the Writing Series Index page—I got into a lot of the Scene and Sequel info there.
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I also struggle with is it the end of the chapter or the end of the scene? I either change chapters with the scenes or just write one long everending thing (read mess!).
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