Tag Archives: Plot

Epic Heroes and Cliches

Posted on August 14, 2014 by J. Sevick

I really could not think what to post about today… So you get some random notes I made on epic heroes! Congratulations… 🙂 Heroes and Epic Fantasy ClichĂ©s A lot of times, heroes (almost always male) will start in one … Continue reading →

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Writing Crappy Plots: The Key to the First Draft

Posted on June 26, 2014 by J. Sevick

It’s common writer wisdom to write rough first drafts. Just get through it, no matter how bad. And at the level of the sentence, the paragraph, the words, it’s not that hard. I can accept that these sentences don’t have … Continue reading →

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How Do You Get Ready to Draft?

Posted on June 18, 2014 by J. Sevick

At some point, all ideas must become a draft—or die useless in the mind. In order for a story to become something you can share, you have to produce it into a physical object. This could be a drawing, a … Continue reading →

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Using the Elevator Pitch to Craft Your Story

Posted on June 16, 2014 by J. Sevick

You may never be so lucky (or unlucky, depending on your anxiety levels) as to pitch an agent your book in an elevator. The idea of the pitch is generally boiled down to a one-sentence summary meant to entice them … Continue reading →

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From Idea to Story

Posted on June 14, 2014 by J. Sevick

[No doubt part one of eight million…] When you look at a finished novel—its pacing, its characters, its settings, its twists and turns—and you look at the infant idea cradled in your mind, you might wonder how you can ever … Continue reading →

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Making Your Heroes Proactive

Posted on June 10, 2014 by J. Sevick

I wrote yesterday about how to start developing the motivation for your hero to stop the villain. Often, this is because the villain is doing evil things, and so the hero rises to stop them. However, sometimes your villain isn’t … Continue reading →

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Plot Types: Epic vs. Procedural

Posted on June 6, 2014 by J. Sevick

Plots can be categorized and described in a thousand ways; at the same time, in other ways, no two plots are exactly alike and thus cannot be too closely associated. While accepting the incredible subjectivity and ultimate pointlessness of separating … Continue reading →

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Finding the Hero

Posted on June 3, 2014 by J. Sevick

Note: When I say “hero,” I mean the protagonist of any gender. Because I’ve decided I want a single protagonist (whether or not I go with a single POV), I have to develop a character that is at the center … Continue reading →

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Plotting 101

Posted on May 26, 2014 by J. Sevick

I’m a pinch busy today, so I’m throwing up some random notes I found buried in my computer–lucky you! But they might have a bit of merit–even as incomplete as they are. 🙂 This is really not meant to be … Continue reading →

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Random Notes on Story Types

Posted on May 15, 2014 by J. Sevick

Dug into the archive for this one—some random notes on different basic story types (in my unauthorized opinion). Story Types –          Procedural = the plot is not personal to the protagonist, who is usually motivated by a job, morality, or … Continue reading →

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