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Synopsis of….well, whatever we’re calling our book

By on June 23, 2009 in Crafting a Strong Premise, Delivering Convincing Proposals, Story Crafting

Limelight, or Take Another Shot, or Dark Secrets – (Current Working Titles)   Synopsis   Former Green Beret Luke Alexander just wants to forget his past, and mind his own business in the wood of east Tennessee.  And, his park ranger job seems just the solution…until into his world walks a diva movie star looking for someplace to hide.  But the Cherokee forest isn’t big enough for the both of them, not if you include the trouble MacKenzie has dragged along behind her.  And soon she’s stirring up his own murky past – a past out for revenge.  Which trouble will find them first? It’s going to get much darker for Luke and MacKenzie in the hills of Tennesse…   [okay, that is what I call the big bang, or one-two punch […]

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The Plotting Roadmap…or scribbles about how I put a book together

By on June 22, 2009 in Delivering Convincing Proposals, SOTP or Plotter?, Story Crafting, Want to see a book in Action? Read the Blog-a-Book Series

  The Plotting Roadmap   Now that we have three chapters written of our story, I wanted to flesh out the plot to the end so you could see where we want to go.  One of the voices asked me – do you always write a story by “the Seat of your Pants?”  Uh, NO.  I hate that, actually, because it gets me all blocked and wandering the house in a fog.  I like having a plan, a roadmap.    In my workbook: From the Inside/Out: discover, create and publish the novel in you, I have a plotting roadmap template – and of course explanations of each step in the journey and how to determine them.  If you want deeper explanations, you can either pick up the book, or search […]

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Chapter 3.2 Clean!

By on June 20, 2009 in Chapter 3, Want to see a book in Action? Read the Blog-a-Book Series

  Wow, it’s amazing how much easier it is to read without all the read squiggles.  And as I got further into the piece, I appreciated RH’s comments more and more – it’s a good lesson – when you are going over the critique of a partner, make sure you have two versions – their comments, and a cleaner one to help you really evaluate them.  I made more changes…and this is going in the Final Rough Draft Vault.  Hope you like it! Next week, we’re going to shift gears and approach this like we might be sending it out as a proposal to agents and editors.  I’m going to start with showing you how to put a synopsis together, using what I call the “Plotting Roadmap.”  Then I’ll show […]

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Chapter 3.2 SMW comments to RH edits

By on June 19, 2009 in Want to see a book in Action? Read the Blog-a-Book Series

  Okay – it’s been such a long time since we had the last scene, there are a lot of varying opinions in this followup scene.  Rachel and I do dialogue very differently…so, you’ll see my rebuttals (and I kept most of the original because it flowed with the previous scene better).  But it is good to remember that clarity, flow and characterization are the key elements in delivering dialogue.  One thing i really appreciate however is another eye — her comments really make me thing about craft, and whether I agree, or not.  Unfortunately, the text may be hard to read, to check back tomorrow for the cleaned up version!   RH COMMENTS IN CAPS OR BOLD Chapter 3.2….RH comments with SMW rebuttal Luke didn’t know who to strangle first […]

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