Plotting: Step-by-Step | Essential Story Plotting, Conflict Writing and Plotline Tricks Any Writer Can Learn: Volume 4 - Softcover

Marsh, Sandy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1983561789 ISBN 13: 9781983561788

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

Synopsis

Your ‘Why’ for Writing, Will Also Be Their ‘Why’ for Reading

Are you struggling to take your story to the next level? Would you like to know the best ways to create intrigue and have your readers rave about your book? Plotting is a step-by-step guide that takes you through the process of developing compelling plots from beginning to end.

With tips and tricks taken straight from professional writers, the novelist will learn how to use plotlines for maximum effect, while retaining creative freedom.

Making Conflict Real

Plotting helps the author weave suspense through improved conflict-writing, centered around a developing plot. Characters are challenged, affected and emerge changed in ways that infuse emotions in your readers, so that they cannot help but be personally invested in the welfare of your protagonist.

Marsh explains in concise straightforward language and with clear examples, the benefits of knowing where you are going with your novel; where the plotline starts (exposition) to how it ends (resolution) and how working with an overview, helps to captivate readers in terms of the lessons learned and the experience of life through the eyes of your characters.

8 Steps to Conflict Resolution

This book acts as a go-to framework for all levels of writers and introduces an 8-Step Process to adding substance to your story through plotting; these include:

• Get Inspired
• Getting Direction
• Turn Your Ideas into a Story
• Create Your Story Arc
• Start with the End

From understanding the basic principles of a plotline, to placing your characters into situations that will help you get inside their head more, Marsh demonstrates the ways to make a plot event a more profound experience for the reader, to activate emotions and keep them engaged until the end of the book.

Having a Strong “Why”

Plotting imparts pro-writing knowledge to elicit genuine resentment against the antagonist while showing the real “why” behind your characters’ actions. This aspect of plotting, captures the importance of allowing the characters to resolve their own conflicts and to keep the reader on the edge of their seats with excitement.

Creating an effective plot is not easy, however, Marsh unravels the secret formula and presents it in her own alluring way, and through the opinions of seasoned-writers she presents the methods to take your storytelling to new heights.

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A must-have guide for storytellers wishing to create compelling and believable plotlines that will captivate readers and leave them desperate for more, when they reach the end of your book. Click Add to Cart now to learn the art of plotting and write like a pro!

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1983561789
• ISBN 13: 9781983561788
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 62