NaNoWriMo Writers: plotting suggestions
Written By: Jessica Morrell
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Nov•
01•18
A few suggestions:
- Don’t edit–this is a first-draft mad dash.
- Remember your story is essentially a problem that needs solving. Not your problem, the protagonist’s problem.
- Keep asking yourself ‘what’s the worst thing that can happen next?’
- Remember you’re sending your protagonist into new emotional and physical territory.
- Start at least one subplot. This subplot should also complicate the protagonist’s goals.
- Know your protagonist’s main emotional wound, sometimes called baggage in real life. How is it going to affect his or her ability to solve the story problem?
- Allow the overall atmosphere and mood to creep into the story world.
- Carry a writer’s notebook everywhere you go. You never know when a brilliant solution is going to appear.
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