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Ready, set, plot!

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

NANOWRIMO

GET READY, GET SET, PLOT!
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What if...

Things had been different?

Title it

make up titles and write a story to match
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Memories

list your early ones and write from that
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Got issues?

What makes your blood boil?

See the movie

(in your mind)

Hear Hear!

Make a playlist, listen to your faves
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That guy

at the airport, in the store, on the bus...
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News!

truth is stranger than fiction
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Research

poisonous frogs? space travel?

Opening lines

Borrow, create, or solicit
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prologue

write for five minutes without stopping
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mind map

work from the center out
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Jobs

you would hate, love, or never be able to do
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Basic structure

awesomeness in three acts

Act one

THE SET UP
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CHARACTER

FASCINATING LEAD

World & Tone

SETTING
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big problem

ANTAGONIST
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door #1

BIG CONFRONTATION
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Act two

SETTING UP THE BIG BATTLE
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confrontations

PROTAGONIST V ANTAGONIST & OTHERS
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exploring

THE DEEPER THEMES
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climax

MEET THE BOSS

Act Three

END OF LOOSE ENDS
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end results

FOR ALL THE CONFRONTATIONS

protagonist

MEET YOUR DESTINY
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NEW NORMAL

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