Below is something I got from Writers Digest Tutorial. I strongly suggest viewing the tutorial. They are very informing. They are made by actual literary agents who know the market and knows what it takes to create a book that sells. They are experts. So please check them out. The tutorials can help improve your writing a lot.
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Plot Your Book: Scene by Scene
 | SUE JOHNSON Writer's Digest Tutorials |
Hi Everyone!
Over-plotter, under-plotter? Struggles with plot are common among writers at all levels. This tutorial takes the guess-work out of plotting by teaching you the key scenes that build your plot backbone, providing a refresher on the elements of a scene, and breaking down the specific kinds of scenes you'll need at each of the three key Acts of a novel. Plots, after all, are simply stories comprised of well-placed and stylized scenes.
Jordan E. Rosenfeld brings over a decade of experience in teaching students how to use scenes to transform writing. She believes that scenes are fiction's "magic ingredient" - activating writing so that your readers are drawn palpably into the experience of your character's story, versus the flat habits of summarizing and expository writing. A former freelance journalist, she shows you the difference between passive "telling" of a story and powerful, active demonstrating of a fantastic plot.
If you'd like to simplify the plot process and no longer be overwhelmed by what comes next, so you can focus on the work of writing powerful characters and transformative stories, you won't want to miss this presentation.
In this 56-minute tutorial video, you'll learn:
Writer's Digest Tutorials Members enjoy full access to all tutorials featured in this newsletter, as well as every tutorial on the tutorials site. Did you know that for only $199 you gain access to all Writer's Digest's writing tutorials for an entire year? That means you have access to all 199+ current tutorials and all the new tutorials created throughout the year. With the addition of at least one new tutorial every week you have access to a minimum of another 52 educational tutorials. Watch every video whenever you like, as often as you would like . . . and be the first to watch the new tutorial we post each week!
Haven't taken advantage of the wisdom bestowed through the WD tutorials yet? Why not try it out today and see all that our WD tutorials have to offer! You can try WD Tutorials for only $25/month! You will enjoy instant access to 199+ tutorials, including at least one new tutorial added weekly. Also, there are many new tutorials still in development. Feel free to preview the many tutorials immediately available to you through the WD Tutorials site.
Wishing you a happy, healthy, week!
~ Sue Johnson~
P.S. If you missed the last newsletter (or two), be sure to watch these new and featured tutorials:
Querying 101: Putting Your Best Book Forward
Contemporary Poetic Forms: Newer Forms for Poets
World Building: The Art of Including Era and Place in Your Writing Part 2World Building: The Art of Including Era and Place in Your Writing Part 1
I've Written a Book...Now What? Part 2
I've Written a Book...Now What? Part 1
25 Things You Should Do to Grab an Agent's Attention
Pitches and Queries: How to Hook an Agent or Editor
Writing and Selling Women's and Book Club Fiction
For quick and easy access to all WD Tutorials available to you, use this link:
View All WD Tutorials >
Over-plotter, under-plotter? Struggles with plot are common among writers at all levels. This tutorial takes the guess-work out of plotting by teaching you the key scenes that build your plot backbone, providing a refresher on the elements of a scene, and breaking down the specific kinds of scenes you'll need at each of the three key Acts of a novel. Plots, after all, are simply stories comprised of well-placed and stylized scenes.
Jordan E. Rosenfeld brings over a decade of experience in teaching students how to use scenes to transform writing. She believes that scenes are fiction's "magic ingredient" - activating writing so that your readers are drawn palpably into the experience of your character's story, versus the flat habits of summarizing and expository writing. A former freelance journalist, she shows you the difference between passive "telling" of a story and powerful, active demonstrating of a fantastic plot.
If you'd like to simplify the plot process and no longer be overwhelmed by what comes next, so you can focus on the work of writing powerful characters and transformative stories, you won't want to miss this presentation.
In this 56-minute tutorial video, you'll learn:
- The essential ingredients of a scene
- The five key "lynchpin" scenes that build your plot backbone
- The importance of First and Final scenes
- How a plot is a journey of character transformation
- Your scenes in three Acts
- How to add plot information to every scene
Writer's Digest Tutorials Members enjoy full access to all tutorials featured in this newsletter, as well as every tutorial on the tutorials site. Did you know that for only $199 you gain access to all Writer's Digest's writing tutorials for an entire year? That means you have access to all 199+ current tutorials and all the new tutorials created throughout the year. With the addition of at least one new tutorial every week you have access to a minimum of another 52 educational tutorials. Watch every video whenever you like, as often as you would like . . . and be the first to watch the new tutorial we post each week!
Haven't taken advantage of the wisdom bestowed through the WD tutorials yet? Why not try it out today and see all that our WD tutorials have to offer! You can try WD Tutorials for only $25/month! You will enjoy instant access to 199+ tutorials, including at least one new tutorial added weekly. Also, there are many new tutorials still in development. Feel free to preview the many tutorials immediately available to you through the WD Tutorials site.
Wishing you a happy, healthy, week!
~ Sue Johnson~
P.S. If you missed the last newsletter (or two), be sure to watch these new and featured tutorials:
Querying 101: Putting Your Best Book Forward
Contemporary Poetic Forms: Newer Forms for Poets
World Building: The Art of Including Era and Place in Your Writing Part 2World Building: The Art of Including Era and Place in Your Writing Part 1
I've Written a Book...Now What? Part 2
I've Written a Book...Now What? Part 1
25 Things You Should Do to Grab an Agent's Attention
Pitches and Queries: How to Hook an Agent or Editor
Writing and Selling Women's and Book Club Fiction
For quick and easy access to all WD Tutorials available to you, use this link:
View All WD Tutorials >
