Following up a Writer’s Summit, a few days on from Escape the Plot Forest , I’m still digesting all that material and need to go over some of it again!
I’m steadily adding to the skeleton story I had before the summit. My 3 characters in search of a plot now exceeds 12,000 words, with a complete narrative arc. Using Derek Murphy’s 24-chapter plotting cheat sheet helps. I know I’m not quite there with structure, but I know where the gaps are.
Also discovered Shawn Coyne’s Storygrid videos and tools which is another perspective for narrative structure, but a long way from the Character First approach that was the focus of the summit.
It hasn’t helped fighting with Apple iTunes/iBooks trying to get my 5 non-fiction books on wide sale. I’ll never complain about Amazon KDP or Kobo again. RC