There is no single right way to plot, so it's best to research different methods, try them out, and keep what works for you. To get you started, here are
Ten Things to Help With Novel Plotting
1. James Scott Bell's Structure Secrets.
2. Stella Cameron's Plotting Your Novel.
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4. Jeff Heisler's Plotting.
5. Randall Ingermanson's Snowflake Process.
6. Holly Lisle's Notecarding: Plotting Under Pressure.
7. Lee Masterson's Plotting Your Novel.
8. M. Mulgrew's Plot Outline Diagram.
9. David Sheppard's Plotting.
10. S.L. Viehl's Single Novel Plotting Template.*
*I haven't updated the copyright note at the bottom of this, but my plotting templates are free for anyone's personal use or non-profit distribution. If you do post or reproduce the template, just remember to give me the byline credit.
(Links updated 2/14/09)
Single Novel Plotting Template. I don't know if it's the same one, only that your link did not work fo rme; so I resorted to Google Fu. ;-)
ReplyDeleteThe link doesn't work for me either.
ReplyDeleteMost of the links I tried are broken...thanks for the post, though!
ReplyDeleteSu_ThinkTank wrote:
ReplyDeleteMost of the links I tried are broken...
Thanks for the heads-up, Su -- I went through the list and checked them, deleted one that no longer exists and updated three others. The rest still work for me, so you might want to try them again. :)
Wow, the plotting template you provided has done wonders for my novel. Best plotting I've ever achieved! Thanks.
ReplyDeleteFor the Four Point Plot Line: http://web.archive.org/web/20070527090858/http://www.fictionsite.com/in_7.html
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