TECH: Outlining for Nanowrimo?
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writercisesOriginal Posting Oct. 28, 2016
A quick review
K. M. Weiland, over on http://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/ has a series of posts about getting ready for Nanowrimo. Basically, it looks like
1. What do you already know about your story?
2. What are the plot holes and questions you already have?
3. Kick your brainstorming with What if ...? What is expected? What is unexpected?
Now, add in a dash of
1. What is your premise? (situation, protagonist, objective, opponent, disaster, and conflict! Start with the situation, protagonist, objective, and opponent. Then toss in the disaster and conflict.) What is the main conflict?
2. Who/what is the antagonist? What are the possible stakes? What the goal, motivation, and plan for each of those kinds of antagonist?
3. What are the protagonist's goals and motivations?
4. What secrets are your characters hiding?
Next, push that brew through these three filters:
1. Plot: What is the external conflict of the story? What are the characters trying to do? What are the stakes in all this? What needs to change?
2. Character: What is the internal conflict? Character arc? What do they want, and what do they need?
3. Theme: What's the theme, pussycat?
Let that cool for a bit, then look for PLOT HOLES!
1. What don't you know about your story? What are the motivations? Do you need some filler scenes to link things? What about relationships?
2. What specific questions need answers? Got any blank spots -- make them into questions.
3. Subplots? Take a look at the minor characters' goals, the links between major and minor characters, and how those minor character relate to each other.
When you find a plot hole, check out the what if's that can point to a good solution, and other questions.
Ready? Set! And...
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A quick review
K. M. Weiland, over on http://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/ has a series of posts about getting ready for Nanowrimo. Basically, it looks like
1. What do you already know about your story?
2. What are the plot holes and questions you already have?
3. Kick your brainstorming with What if ...? What is expected? What is unexpected?
Now, add in a dash of
1. What is your premise? (situation, protagonist, objective, opponent, disaster, and conflict! Start with the situation, protagonist, objective, and opponent. Then toss in the disaster and conflict.) What is the main conflict?
2. Who/what is the antagonist? What are the possible stakes? What the goal, motivation, and plan for each of those kinds of antagonist?
3. What are the protagonist's goals and motivations?
4. What secrets are your characters hiding?
Next, push that brew through these three filters:
1. Plot: What is the external conflict of the story? What are the characters trying to do? What are the stakes in all this? What needs to change?
2. Character: What is the internal conflict? Character arc? What do they want, and what do they need?
3. Theme: What's the theme, pussycat?
Let that cool for a bit, then look for PLOT HOLES!
1. What don't you know about your story? What are the motivations? Do you need some filler scenes to link things? What about relationships?
2. What specific questions need answers? Got any blank spots -- make them into questions.
3. Subplots? Take a look at the minor characters' goals, the links between major and minor characters, and how those minor character relate to each other.
When you find a plot hole, check out the what if's that can point to a good solution, and other questions.
Ready? Set! And...
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