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In a few moments, you'll get an email confirming your seat in How to Choose Your Story's Structure, along with instructions on how to attend the live training and where to access the other course materials.
While you're waiting for your access instructions to arrive...can we talk about the other half of the battle?
Once You Choose a Structure,
How Do You Plan Your Story Around It?
Maybe you’ve tried working with a particular story structure once before…
…but you couldn’t figure out how to turn that structure into a story.
You might have struggled to figure out the difference between a plot point and a pinch point.
Or scratched your head and wondered what “the meeting with the goddess” has to do with your hero’s quest to catch a serial killer.
Maybe you weren't even sure where to start.
Choosing the right structure isn’t enough--it's just the beginning. You also need to know how to plan your story around it.
You've already got a quick crash course in story planning as part of your seat in Beth's live training: 7 Keys to Story Planning.
But if you're an intuitive writer--a pantser--you've probably had some bad experiences with story planning.
You might even have given up on story planning altogether, because it was taught to you in a way that doesn't work with the way you think.
You're not the problem.
You just need to learn from someone who writes like you do--organically.
As an intuitive writer, Beth has had to develop her own way of looking at story development. One that helps her develop her vision for the story without stifling her ability to write.
She understands that each writer is different. That you'll need a different combination of tools than another writer.
That's why she shares her organic approach to story development in Plan Your Novel, a complete toolkit that digs deep into the many aspects of getting ready to write a great story.
(Don't be fooled by the title...you can use these tools to plan stories of any length. Or series.)
“I remain stunned by how practical [Plan Your Novel] is and what an incredible difference it has made for me in my work! ...As I’ve told many fellow writers, the worksheets/sessions that you offer are invaluable resources...”
In Plan Your Novel, you'll learn techniques for brainstorming...
PREMISE
- How to create your story's elevator pitch
- The What-If pitch vs the High-Concept pitch
- How to write a short synopsis that makes outlining easier
CHARACTER
- The 8 aspects of character development
- 10 questions to ask your character and 14 questions to help you further develop them
- How to use identity and belief change to drive a character arc
- How secrets shape your character
- How to identify the main issue that drives your character's inner turmoil and escalates conflict
WORLDBUILDING
- How to build the relevant parts of your story's world
- In-depth questions for worldbuilding
- The relationship between worldbuiding and generating story ideas
OUTLINING AND PLOT
- How to apply genre expectations without falling into cliche
- How to mine a character's fears for plot events
- A detailed look at obligatory scenes and other genre elements
- The problem/solution method of plotting
- How to storyboard your outline
- The 5 essential stages of a scene
- How to create a scene-by-scene outline
Beth’s self-study Plan Your Novel course fully equips you with all the tools you need to build a solid story around the structure you’ve chosen.
Plan Your Novel normally sells for $60, but you'll save $10 if you sign up for today.
“Beth & Ezra are super accessible… & they have great ideas for guiding an author’s success. It’s been fun to virtually meet other creative writers as well. The support is fabulous … a real community.”
If you're having trouble getting your stories started off on the right foot...
If you're plotting your stories ahead of time but getting stuck in the middle...
If you're frustrated because your first drafts require so much revision...
...this is your chance to master the art of choosing the right structure and planning your story around it.
Happy writing!
Beth and Lynn
Beth Barany
Award-winning novelist, Master NLP Practitioner and certified creativity coach for writers, Beth Barany’s courses are packed with useful hands-on information that you can implement right away.
Beth runs the Writer's Fun Zone blog, for and by creative writers, where you can download her free reports on book marketing and novel writing.
She is also the author of The Writer's Adventure Guide, Overcome Writer's Block, and Twitter for Authors.
She takes great interest in how humans learn, create, and grow, and includes all her students’ life experiences, including the ancestors, into the moment.
Lynn Johnston
Lynn Johnston is a writing mentor and award-winning author with a passion for teaching fiction writers how to increase the emotional impact of their stories to turn readers into fans.
She blogs at Write Smarter, Not Harder, where you can download her free ebook, Editing for Story.
She's also the author of The 30 Day Novel Workbook, The 30 Day Romance Novel Workbook, and The Writer's Guide to Getting Organized.
Lynn would love to teach you her methods for plotting organically, creating archetypal characters, planning a series, making setting a character in your story, and much more.
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