We all have a plot. Family
fights during my childhood, spine surgery when I was a fifteen, leaving high
school, getting my GED, and pursuing writing are all events that have happened
in my life. These events make up the plot of my own personal story just like
the events that occur in a book, which connect the beginning to the end, are part
of a story’s plot.
Now that you know how to
start and end your story, you can begin planning the rest of your novel. I like
to write, in a few words, what I want to happen in the beginning of the story
at the very top of a piece of paper, and then a few words to describe the end
of the story at the very bottom of that same piece of paper. When that is done,
I fill in the rest of the paper with the events that link the beginning of the
story to the end.
Don’t rush this process! You
can’t hurry brilliance. The longer you think about your story idea, the more
you will know just what you want to put in it.
Let your imagination carry
you away to the world of your book. Greet your characters, get to know them,
and picture their lives playing out in front of you. You know their beginning
and you know their end. What happens to them in-between those two points? What
do they do?
QUESTION: Is there a recurring theme in the books you read?
I have a thing for books
about witches set in the modern world.
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