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60 WAYS TO PLOT OR DODGE WRITER'S BLOCK
60 WAYS TO PLOT OR DODGE WRITER'S BLOCK
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It doesn't matter whether you're a meticulous plotter or a clueless-until-it-leaves-your-fingertips Pantser – somewhere along the line you're going to hit the tall, broad, barbed wire and broken glass topped wall of writer's block with a plot – either in the planning stage or in the execution, the actual writing of the story. Unless you're writing westerns, and then it might be like riding into the Grand Canyon, having your horse break his leg and need to be put down, and not having a boat to get passed the rapids or the rock climbing gear or experience to scale the canyon walls.
In other words, you're stuck. 60 WAYS TO PLOT OR DODGE WRITER'S BLOCK can help!
And the longer the word count in a tale, the more often those troublesome spots poof into being. That's when the story you loved begins to be referred to as "the book from Hell". Oddly enough, nearly every book that has turned out extremely well for me (in that I'm proud of it) has carried that moniker for weeks on end.
I've read a lot of books on how to plot and on how to avoid writer's block – not a one helped me do so. I've listened at conferences as writers talked about fool-proof plotting and how to side-step writer's block – nada bit of help either. So I dreamed up my own ways around, over or under those seemingly unscalable walls that stopped my imagination cold.
Not all of them work every single time, which is why there are 60 of them presented here. Sometimes they aren't all that different, though the mental picture painted (or physical manifestation suggested, in some cases) changes slightly. An alteration in the idea generating venue can turn the trick. Often enough one of these allowed me to mentally pole vault over whatever was holding progress up in one book and then slammed me against the unyielding surface of that writer's block wall in another manuscript. I work my way through them because if one doesn't work, another will reignite the story and get it moving forward again.
In other words, you're stuck. 60 WAYS TO PLOT OR DODGE WRITER'S BLOCK can help!
And the longer the word count in a tale, the more often those troublesome spots poof into being. That's when the story you loved begins to be referred to as "the book from Hell". Oddly enough, nearly every book that has turned out extremely well for me (in that I'm proud of it) has carried that moniker for weeks on end.
I've read a lot of books on how to plot and on how to avoid writer's block – not a one helped me do so. I've listened at conferences as writers talked about fool-proof plotting and how to side-step writer's block – nada bit of help either. So I dreamed up my own ways around, over or under those seemingly unscalable walls that stopped my imagination cold.
Not all of them work every single time, which is why there are 60 of them presented here. Sometimes they aren't all that different, though the mental picture painted (or physical manifestation suggested, in some cases) changes slightly. An alteration in the idea generating venue can turn the trick. Often enough one of these allowed me to mentally pole vault over whatever was holding progress up in one book and then slammed me against the unyielding surface of that writer's block wall in another manuscript. I work my way through them because if one doesn't work, another will reignite the story and get it moving forward again.
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