This Saturday, September 23, we’ll be running our Plan Your Party & Giveaway, a fun free event to jumpstart your fiction writing.

Even if you can’t join us live, you’ll get all the party goodies:

• An All-Access Pass to “7 Keys to Story Planning” course
• The companion ebook “7 Essential Keys to Planning Your Novel”
• A Party Checklist to help you create a fun day with your friends, plus some surprise party favors!
• An invitation to the live virtual event on Facebook where you’ll to get ask questions to the experienced instructors of the “Plan Your Novel” course) and…

A ticket to possibly win one of our grand prizes, including Lynn Johnston’s course, “From Premise to Plot: Easy Story Structure for Plotters and Pantsers” ($97 value).

DESCRIPTION

You’ll find out how to turn any plot structure in existence into a series of character-specific questions that make brainstorming easier, whether you outline first or feel your way through the story one plot point at a time.

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Using a question-based approach to plotting that naturally ties character growth to your story’s events, you’ll learn:

– organic methods of plotting that you can use to feel your way through a story as you write
– rules of thumb for escalating conflict
– the nuances of three-act structure
– why plotting a romance is so tricky (and how to do it well)
– how to plot a multi-protagonist story
– how to braid multiple strands of a story together into a cohesive outline

You’ll find out how to turn any plot structure in existence into a series of character-specific questions that make brainstorming easier, whether you outline first or feel your way through the story one plot point at a time.

Most importantly, this won’t be theoretical: you’ll watch over Lynn’s shoulder as she plots short stories and a full novel using these techniques, and hear her think through plotting decisions as she builds the story.

You’ll get:

– 10+ hours of video and audio lessons
– PDF transcripts of all lessons
– PDFs of the slides, for easy reference
– Worksheets to help you use each of the plotting techniques for your own stories

ABOUT 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.

Register Here

Register for our Plan Your Party & Giveaway, a fun free event to jumpstart your fiction writing. Hope to see you there!