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Photo by Aubrey Rose Odom on Unsplash So i’m in the midst of writing a new novel, and reader, I got stuck. I got stuck so bad that I had to go crying to my agent, Caitlin McDonald, who got back to me with the solution. And I realized something – just about every…
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Sometimes people look at my process and say, “that’s so organized, I have no idea how you do this in such a tidy way, I could never do that. How do you do it so neatly?” The answer is that I don’t try, at first. That organization is the last thing I do, not…
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A scene is a unit of dramatic action. Emphasis on drama.
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107k Words. 76 Scenes. 16 Pages. What you’re looking at is an essential document for the complex operation that is transforming my first draft into a revised draft. It’s scary, isn’t it? I like to think that it’s beautifully organized. That’s the entire scene by scene outline of the first draft of Stormsong –…