Discovering Your Plot
M.A. Lee
What do writers want from plot?
What do writers need from plot?
Are those questions the same? Not really. As wordsmiths, we writers know that want and need are two different words.
· The want is a circumstance that we writers can control. We want plot specifics to help us craft story and exceed reader expectations.
· The need is a circumstance of obligations from reader expectations of story. While readers may want the comfort of the genre elements (the tropes), they also wish to have their interest and curiosity piqued.
Can we writers deliver on the expectations and the surprises in order to please our readers? That’s the question that Discovering Your Plot answers.
This guidebook covers plot structure and the necessities of genre expectations so we writers can anticipate what readers want. It explores the six most common plot structures and has a detailed examination of 12 major sections in all novels, no matter the genre.
By the end of Discovering Your Plot¸ writers will have the tools to construct a story as well as diagnose problems with pacing, tension and suspense, and sequencing events.
Discovering Your Plot is Book 6 in the Think like a Pro Writer series and the second of the Discovering set of how-to guidebooks for writers at all skill levels. While the approach is for newbies, every writer can benefit from this fresh look at any novel’s framework.
With her two other pen names, author M.A. Lee has published over 50 titles of fiction and nonfiction.
Duration - 4h 59m.
Author - M.A. Lee.
Narrator - M.A. Lee.
Published Date - Monday, 15 January 2024.
Copyright - © 2019 Emily R. Dunn ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
What do writers want from plot? What do writers need from plot? Are those questions the same? Not really. As wordsmiths, we writers know that want and need are two different words. · The want is a circumstance that we writers can control. We want plot specifics to help us craft story and exceed reader expectations. · The need is a circumstance of obligations from reader expectations of story. While readers may want the comfort of the genre elements (the tropes), they also wish to have their interest and curiosity piqued. Can we writers deliver on the expectations and the surprises in order to please our readers? That’s the question that Discovering Your Plot answers. This guidebook covers plot structure and the necessities of genre expectations so we writers can anticipate what readers want. It explores the six most common plot structures and has a detailed examination of 12 major sections in all novels, no matter the genre. By the end of Discovering Your Plot¸ writers will have the tools to construct a story as well as diagnose problems with pacing, tension and suspense, and sequencing events. Discovering Your Plot is Book 6 in the Think like a Pro Writer series and the second of the Discovering set of how-to guidebooks for writers at all skill levels. While the approach is for newbies, every writer can benefit from this fresh look at any novel’s framework. With her two other pen names, author M.A. Lee has published over 50 titles of fiction and nonfiction. Duration - 4h 59m. Author - M.A. Lee. Narrator - M.A. Lee. Published Date - Monday, 15 January 2024. Copyright - © 2019 Emily R. Dunn ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:14
Introduction to Discovering Your Plot
Duration:00:03:15
What is Story? (with Story Length)
Duration:00:13:31
Genre Expectations & 10 Major Genres
Duration:00:15:08
Hate and Love for Genre Tropes
Duration:00:15:56
Plotting Essentials
Duration:00:19:25
Special Approaches to Plot
Duration:00:12:32
Plot Structure for the Masses Intro
Duration:00:00:34
Aristotle's Plot Requirements
Duration:00:06:38
Shakespeare's Plot Requirements
Duration:00:12:04
Freytag's Plot Structure
Duration:00:05:40
Complex Plot Structure
Duration:00:08:15
Basic Beats
Duration:00:03:03
Plot Structure for Writers
Duration:00:05:21
Writers and Archetypes
Duration:00:11:53
Stage 1 Ordinary World
Duration:00:08:03
Stage 2 Call to Adventure
Duration:00:09:26
Stage 3 Refusal of the Call
Duration:00:10:11
Stage 4 Meeting with the Mentor
Duration:00:09:54
Stage 5 Crossing Thresholds
Duration:00:08:56
Stage 6 Tests, Allies, and Enemies
Duration:00:09:09
Stage 7A Approach to the Inmost Cave
Duration:00:10:02
Stage 7B Entering the Cave
Duration:00:08:10
Stage 8 Ordeal
Duration:00:12:53
Stage 9 Reward
Duration:00:08:53
Stage 10 The Road Back
Duration:00:13:27
Stage 11 The Resurrection: of Evil and of the Protagonist
Duration:00:14:34
Stage 12 Return with the Elixir
Duration:00:06:19
Appendix 1: Kishotenketsu: an Asian Plotting Method
Duration:00:14:01
Appendix 2: the Plot 7 , part A
Duration:00:10:44
Appendix 3: the Plot 7, part B
Duration:00:11:27
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:11