Flip every plot point of your scene, then flip it again (with an example from T.U.B.E.)

Flip it, flip it, flip it. Like a pancake. In other words, TURN IT ON ITS HEAD.

Right now I’m plotting a scene where O (O is short for Olesya, TUBE’s main character) is calling the hospital in Moscow to find out if her mom has died (everyone is telling her that, but she refuses to believe it). 

Before I write down a single word of this scene, I think about major plot points, then I block it out, then I write it. 

Here is how.

Plotting looks like a list of lines, from 5 to 15 or so, to indicate m...