https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2009/11/tracking-conflict-tension-and-suspense.html?m=0
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: Tracking Conflict, Tension, and Suspense
The Plot Planner I create for writers during an On-going Plot Phone Consultations (and encourage all writers to create for on their own fo...
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https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2008/06/second-draft.html
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: SECOND DRAFT
You finish your rough draft. Now what? How do you write an effective second draft of your story rather than just edit what you've already wr...
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https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2014/05/same-old-story.html
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: Same Old Story
Just like the protagonist of your story, you, too, have a story behind the story of your life. We explain things that happen to us, just...
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https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2010/06/benefits-of-showing-emotion-not-telling.html?m=0
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: Plot Trick: Showing Character Emotion, Not Telling
A plot trick to connect readers to your stories? Rather than tell how a character feels, the trick is to find unique ways to show in scene t...
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https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2009/08/writers-journey-mirrors-heros-journey.html?m=0
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: Writer's Journey Mirrors Hero's Journey
The middle of the Middle is the territory of the antagonists both for the writer and for the protagonist, too. Antagonists, internal and ext...
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https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2009/07/new-world-order.html
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: A New World Order
In the 60s, Curtis Mayfield sings of a new world order, a change of mind for the whole human race. Marie Elena Gaspari dances to it in the ...
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https://deanabarnhart.blogspot.com/2011/10/firsts-fridays-plot-whisperer-martha.html?showComment=1319205789798
Deana Barnhart: Firsts Fridays: The Plot Whisperer, Martha Alderson
A nyone who reads my blog is probably sick to death of me mentioning the Plot Whisperer, but I tell you, she is fabulous. So fabulous in fac...
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https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2009/08/writing-your-second-book.html?m=0
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: Writing Your Second Book
Yesterday's blog -- First Draft Twitters -- was in response to a writer who has written one very successful book and is now slogging her wa...
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https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2012/11/nanowrimo-plot-tips.html?m=0
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: NaNoWriMo Plot Tips
SPECIAL NOTE: Next month is PlotWriMo when I guide you through re"vision"ing your plot arc for a major rewrite in the new year. While ...
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https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2012/10/?m=1
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: October 2012
International plot consultant, author of the Plot Whisperer books for writers and founder of PlotWriMo, I help transform stories. As Secrets of Personal...
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https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2008/04/e-is-for-excellence.html
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: E is for Excellence
Plot Whisperer for Writers and Readers has just won its second award! Dorlana from Supernatural Fairy Tales presented the honors. Please ac...
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https://deanabarnhart.blogspot.com/2011/10/firsts-fridays-plot-whisperer-martha.html?showComment=1319216349554
Deana Barnhart: Firsts Fridays: The Plot Whisperer, Martha Alderson
A nyone who reads my blog is probably sick to death of me mentioning the Plot Whisperer, but I tell you, she is fabulous. So fabulous in fac...
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https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2013/11/bookstore-book-launch-party-idea.html?m=0
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: Bookstore Book Launch Party Idea
Want a sure way to entice book lovers to attend your bookstore book launch party? Promise cake (a thematically-true cake). They will come! ...
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https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-joy-of-writing-first-draft.html?m=0
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: The Joy of Writing a First Draft
My hope in providing you the prompts in The Plot Whisperer Book of Writing Prompts: Easy Exercises to Get You Writing is that you'll have ...
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https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2013/09/rising-and-falling-plot-action-and.html?m=0
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: Rising and Falling Plot Action and Tension
Dear Ms. Alderson: I've been reading your " Blockbuster Plots " and loving it, but I have a question about the plot planner ( examples of...
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https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2007/02/consistency-with-characters.html
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: Characters Consistency is Paramount
Partway through a two-hour plot consultation, the writer I was working with related a scene in which the protagonist does something entirely...
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https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2009/01/choosing-pov.html
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: Choosing POV
Today's consultation challenged conventional point of view and arrangement. Most stories revolve around a protagonist who is changed at dept...
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https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2009/10/sophisticated-form-of-writers.html?m=1
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: A Sophisticated Form of Writer's Procrastination
Two On-going Plot Phone Consultations in a row, with two separate writers, each of whom suffers from a sophisticated form of procrastination...
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https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-universal-story-and-sea.html?m=0
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: The Universal Story and the Sea
Where I live, the tide determines whether I walk on the beach with sand between my toes or high atop cliffs following the shoreline. At high...
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https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2009/10/importance-of-character.html?m=0
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: The Importance of Character
A dear, dear friend asked me what I thought of an editor's comments regarding her latest book. Having been told that the book did not have a...
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https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2008/10/?m=1
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: October 2008
International plot consultant, author of the Plot Whisperer books for writers and founder of PlotWriMo, I help transform stories. As Secrets of Personal...
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https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2009/10/sophisticated-form-of-writers.html
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: A Sophisticated Form of Writer's Procrastination
Two On-going Plot Phone Consultations in a row, with two separate writers, each of whom suffers from a sophisticated form of procrastination...
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https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2007/09/scene-versus-summary.html
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: SCENE VERSUS SUMMARY
Thinking about something is cerebral and is generally written in summary Feeling something is visceral and is generally written in scene. Tr...
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https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2012/02/?m=1
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: February 2012
International plot consultant, author of the Plot Whisperer books for writers and founder of PlotWriMo, I help transform stories. As Secrets of Personal...
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https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2013/09/i-was-co-dependent-on-my-writing.html?m=1
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: I Was Co-Dependent on My Writing
She speaks the simple line while recounting the layers she's had to heal while writing her first book to arrive where she is now, ready to e...
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https://deanabarnhart.blogspot.com/2011/10/firsts-fridays-plot-whisperer-martha.html
Deana Barnhart: Firsts Fridays: The Plot Whisperer, Martha Alderson
A nyone who reads my blog is probably sick to death of me mentioning the Plot Whisperer, but I tell you, she is fabulous. So fabulous in fac...
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https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2010/05/climax.html?m=0
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: Climax
The final 1/4 of a story carefully builds in tension with several "above-the-line" scenes that culminate at the Climax with an ultimate emot...
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https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2009/02/creating-sacred-writing-space.html?m=0
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: Creating a Sacred Writing Space
We as writers spend countless hours in our writing "caves," creating characters and stories we hope will engage and captive our readers. The...
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https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2014/03/how-to-draw-universal-story-line.html?m=0
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: How to Draw the Universal Story Line
A writer's difficulty drawing a Plot Planner line inspires this post. The first time we met at a plot workshop/retreat, literary agent Jill ...
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https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2013/07/difference-between-crisis-and-every.html?m=0
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: Difference between Crisis and Every Other Scene in the Middle...
The middle of your story is the territory of the antagonists , which means that the antagonists control the new and unusual world. In this ...
https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2014/05/keep-your-eye-on-prize.html
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: 5 Tips How to Achieve Your Goals When Faced with an Antagonist:...
Goal setting for your characters determines the character emotional development plot, sets the dramatic action plot and points to the overal...
https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2014/03/writer-paths-first-annual-deep-plot.html
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: Writer Path's First Annual Deep Plot & Scene Retreat
I no longer remember which idea came first, the writer's retreat? I think we first talked about collaborating on a plot and scene book. Out ...
https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2015/01/writers-enliven-your-imagination-and.html
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: Writers: Enliven Your Imagination and Embrace the Miraculous
Dictionary definition of Imagination: The capacity to form a picture in your mind of something that you have not seen / experienced / isn'...
https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2013/02/how-to-create-more-dramatic-action-in.html
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: How to Create More Dramatic Action in Your Novel, Memoir,...
Prompt 11 in The Plot Whisperer Book of Writing Prompts: Easy Exercises to Get You Writing prompts you to introduce and develop a major ant...
https://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/2010/04/ascent-to-climax-for-writer-and.html
Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer: Ascent to the Climax for Writer and Protagonist
I have the great pleasure of working with a writer who is as fascinating and inspiring as his story. The inspiration for his story hit abou...