Writing Plot Tip #2

In this 4 1/2-minute video, Alida describes the relationship between story structure and plot.   How can understanding structure help you craft your story's plot?  What are your biggest questions about crafting plot? Leave a comment below. I'd love your input!

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Writing Plot Tip #1

In this 3-minute video, Alida talks about what plot is and one thing you can - um...should - do at the beginning of your plot's development to smooth the road ahead. You know, that road of rising action that excites the reader all the way to the climax?What are your...

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An Audience of None

An Audience of None

One’s journal is a sanctuary, a space wherein a writer can simply self-express. Its unassuming blankness offers a container for philosophizing, ranting, sentimentalizing, weeping, and creating. It is a repository of one’s truth, if not always of fact. The...

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Writing as a Priority

Writing as a Priority

Priorities are a way to set guideposts for a life well-lived.That’s well-lived personally defined. Writing is my declared priority; therefore, I had better be writing no matter the kind of life I’m having. Yet it is sometimes difficult to live up to that declared...

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Ruminations on Writing as a Practice

Ruminations on Writing as a Practice

Writing for me is a practice. I mean practice in the same way people use the word when talking about meditation. It hasn’t always been this for me. Originally, I wrote for fun, because I couldn’t help myself. Telling stories to and for myself was my...

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Crescendo!

https://youtu.be/-YHeWAgskN8   I explain the importance of the crescendo in your story’s structure. Whether writing an action scene or an emotion-driven one, you need to make sure the movement rises…and rises!

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