Your Plot Is a Fractal
Your story recreates the same three-point structure at every scale.
Latest in Story Plotting 101
How to Plot a Novel Series
Plan your continuity and structure your arcs.
Character Agency: It’s What That Sexy Lamp Is Missing
If a character's choices don't affect anything, they might as well be furniture.
Filling In Your Story’s Middle
Writers often know where their stories start and end but draw a blank when it comes to all the stuff in between.
The One Big Thing That Most Manuscripts Lack
I’ll admit it: my title is pretty sensationalist.
How to Outline Your Story
Try these ideas to get your story's general ideas down.
How to Turn Your Concept Into a Story
Follow these tips to pare down your idea into something you can work with.
Outline a Short Story in Seven Steps
How to start your short story-writing with a strong idea in mind.
Establishing and Satisfying Plot Threads
How to keep your story on track from beginning to end.
Is It Plot?
How to turn your story elements into dramatic blasts.
Tying Your Plot Together
How to weave your story's strands together into a cohesive whole.
Jeppsson