NaNoWriMo will be upon us next month, and so for a lot of people, October is National Novel Prep Month.
(I’m mainly going to hype my writing in an anthology this month… and also work on some scriptwriting).
Now, if you read last week’s post and decided that you are more of a plotter, writer Derek Murphy has a 9 step “plot dot” for you. For some, you’ll quickly pick up on the fact that this is quite in line with the “hero’s journey,” which may not fit with the novel you’re trying to write. However, for many species of novel and feature film, there’s a key conceit that this story is a chronicle of something that happened that was quite extraordinary, even on the personal level of a single level. Implicitly, we, the readers or audience want to know “why is this night is different from all other nights?” as it were. So whatever your story’s goals are, you gotta deliver.