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Fiction Builder!: Outlining and Plotting your Novel in Three Constructive Steps
Are you always getting stuck in the middle when writing a story? Are those endless rewrites giving you a headache? Or are you struggling to put all your different story ideas together? In Fiction Builder! Eva Kattz and Maria Staal show you a way out of the most common writer traps and put the fun back into writing. Now a developmental editor and a cosy mystery writer respectively, Eva and Maria developed a new writing technique that can help you gain control over your own writing. Through three easy, practical steps, plotting and outlining will become creative and inspirational again. In this book, you will learn how • Use story structure to your best advantage • Keep an overview of all your plot ideas • Plot your story in three practical steps Outlining is not a secret rite of passage that you need to go through to become a ‘real’ writer. Outlining is a craft that you can learn to help you produce the best stories you have ever written. If you’re ready to unleash your inner plot-machine, this book is for you.
129 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 15, 2018
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November 19, 2022
Rounding upwards from 3.5.
Fiction Builder has a lot of useful hands-on advice on how to make a story run smoothly and avoid the pitfalls of getting stuck while writing your actual prose. Rather than explaining basic story elements it gives practical insights on how to shape and give direction to your plot and ideas. In my view it can be useful to plotters and pantsers alike.
However, some things were a bit distracting to me while reading all of this good advice. The tone of voice is kind of frivolous - to the point of being forced humor/ 'laugh or I'll shoot' at times. The book also seems to assume readers are not confident in their writing abilities by default and regularly despair that they're not good enough. There is also some meandering towards writing software (and why it does not work as well as fiction builder) that I couldn't always follow.
All in all though, I would still recommend if you're a beginning writer getting stuck in their plot and/or would like to write more efficiently/ waste as little time as possible on rewrites.
Fiction Builder has a lot of useful hands-on advice on how to make a story run smoothly and avoid the pitfalls of getting stuck while writing your actual prose. Rather than explaining basic story elements it gives practical insights on how to shape and give direction to your plot and ideas. In my view it can be useful to plotters and pantsers alike.
However, some things were a bit distracting to me while reading all of this good advice. The tone of voice is kind of frivolous - to the point of being forced humor/ 'laugh or I'll shoot' at times. The book also seems to assume readers are not confident in their writing abilities by default and regularly despair that they're not good enough. There is also some meandering towards writing software (and why it does not work as well as fiction builder) that I couldn't always follow.
All in all though, I would still recommend if you're a beginning writer getting stuck in their plot and/or would like to write more efficiently/ waste as little time as possible on rewrites.
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