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Plotting Simplified: Story Structure Tips for the Break-Out Novelist
In Plotting Simplified you'll learn how to map your story using the "passage markers" that shape every story's journey. From introduction and motivation to your Lead's moment of maxim angst, you’ll see how easy it is to develop a story line and keep your characters on the path to a compelling climax.
Learn how to introduce the Great Disturbance, what 4 Questions you should ask of your plot, how to map-out your story, manage your key scenes, the 7 Keys to every good plot, why Worry, Conflict and Disaster spells success for the writer, and how to introduce your Major Dramatic Question.
Learn how to introduce the Great Disturbance, what 4 Questions you should ask of your plot, how to map-out your story, manage your key scenes, the 7 Keys to every good plot, why Worry, Conflict and Disaster spells success for the writer, and how to introduce your Major Dramatic Question.
24 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 13, 2011
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About the author
Eddie Jones
26 books118 followersEddie is an award-winning author of middle-grade fiction with HarperCollins. Father of two boys, he's also a pirate at heart who loves to surf.
Eddie's middle grade series are wholesome reading with a flair for unexpected adventure. The Caden Chronicles series has a spooky but spiritual message based on real "monsters" in the Bible. The sixth book in the series, "Rumor of a Werewolf", released in June 2019 and is a finalist for the Selah awards in Middle Grade fiction.
"The Caribbean Chronicles" is a time-travel pirate adventure series based on a boy who suffers from absence seizures. The third book, "The End of Calico Jack", released September 2019 and is a finalist for the Selah award in Young Adult fiction. All of Eddie's pirate and "monster" mystery books are award-winners.
An avid sailor with a great sense of humor, Eddie has been married to a girl he met at a stoplight in West Palm Beach during spring break many, many years ago.
Awards for Middle Grade and YA novels
* Winner of the Selah award for tween / teen mysteries
* INSPY Award
* Moonbeam Children's Book Award
Readers Are Leaders - Buy a Boy a Book!
WritersCoach.us
Eddiejones.org
eddie@eddiejones.org
Twitter.com/EddieJonesTweet
Facebook.com/EddieJonesHumor
Instagram.com/authoreddiejones
Eddie's middle grade series are wholesome reading with a flair for unexpected adventure. The Caden Chronicles series has a spooky but spiritual message based on real "monsters" in the Bible. The sixth book in the series, "Rumor of a Werewolf", released in June 2019 and is a finalist for the Selah awards in Middle Grade fiction.
"The Caribbean Chronicles" is a time-travel pirate adventure series based on a boy who suffers from absence seizures. The third book, "The End of Calico Jack", released September 2019 and is a finalist for the Selah award in Young Adult fiction. All of Eddie's pirate and "monster" mystery books are award-winners.
An avid sailor with a great sense of humor, Eddie has been married to a girl he met at a stoplight in West Palm Beach during spring break many, many years ago.
Awards for Middle Grade and YA novels
* Winner of the Selah award for tween / teen mysteries
* INSPY Award
* Moonbeam Children's Book Award
Readers Are Leaders - Buy a Boy a Book!
WritersCoach.us
Eddiejones.org
eddie@eddiejones.org
Twitter.com/EddieJonesTweet
Facebook.com/EddieJonesHumor
Instagram.com/authoreddiejones
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December 27, 2011
"For the pantser who needs a plot."
This book is super-short, and easy to read. I don't think it's a book for the writer who doesn't already have some knowledge of plotting. In fact, it reads more like an extended checklist.
Plotting does not come easily to me, so I've read quite a few books on the subject. Yet I've had difficulty infusing what I know into my work. I always get bogged down in the technicalities. But this book strips plotting down to it's most basic. Your character needs to be this person, he/she needs to start out somewhere and have a reason to want to move somewhere else, and these things need to happen along the way.
If you've read all the books on plotting, and tried everything, but none of it sticks, this may well be the book for you.
I'm off to try and insert a plot in my last manuscript. :)
This book is super-short, and easy to read. I don't think it's a book for the writer who doesn't already have some knowledge of plotting. In fact, it reads more like an extended checklist.
Plotting does not come easily to me, so I've read quite a few books on the subject. Yet I've had difficulty infusing what I know into my work. I always get bogged down in the technicalities. But this book strips plotting down to it's most basic. Your character needs to be this person, he/she needs to start out somewhere and have a reason to want to move somewhere else, and these things need to happen along the way.
If you've read all the books on plotting, and tried everything, but none of it sticks, this may well be the book for you.
I'm off to try and insert a plot in my last manuscript. :)
July 25, 2015
Simple and Inspiring
This book was easy to understand, and simple in its layout. But don't let that fool you. This shot t book is also inspiring. As you read it, you discover what separates well written storylines from those missing essential elements that make a story touch a person's heart. This book has gotten me excited to hone my writing skills again. That's why I say it is inspiring.
This book was easy to understand, and simple in its layout. But don't let that fool you. This shot t book is also inspiring. As you read it, you discover what separates well written storylines from those missing essential elements that make a story touch a person's heart. This book has gotten me excited to hone my writing skills again. That's why I say it is inspiring.
July 18, 2015
A very quick primer on plotting. It served as a useful outline, and by including my own notes on my current WIP directly (via my Ipad Kindle), I can refer back to it while I continue to outline my novel. For a more in-depth description of plotting, however, the reader will want to supplement with other materials.
September 9, 2013
Has a few bits of decent information, but nothing you can't find elsewhere online for free really. It's short, and the first half is pretty choppy and doesn't make a lot of sense. The last part where it's explaining the 3 act structure is the best, but I've seen it explained a bit better elsewhere.
December 5, 2013
Very useful, concise, and simple guide for writers to use as a checklist and guide for plotting and story structure. Superb resource for fiction writers, with lots of good stuff for non-fiction writers, as well.
June 22, 2012
A great book for beginners to the craft of writing. Sadly, not much was in here that I haven't already learned. I guess that means I'm no longer a beginner. XD
October 9, 2012
Short but powerful
July 1, 2013
Simple, quick read on plotting with an excellent concluding example
March 25, 2012
Perfect summary of much I've already learned, but it was helpful to me to see it in this format.
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