- Create Thought Dump “Google Doc” buckets
- Hanone History
- Illian History before book starts
- Book 1
- Book 2
- Book 3
- Book 4
- Book 5
- Book of Legends
- The World of Loris - From Hanone to the New World
- Inciting incident - Ottomus announces his desire to expand his kingdom
- Rising action - The establishment of Plan, People, Person. Increasing threat of the RISHK. Increasing wonder if Clal will pull through.
- Climax - The final battle and Womlon is defeated. (Book 5).
- Resolution - Ottomus, Felsawn, and Morgreth walk through the three arches and arrange the rest of civilization on the new land. The prospect of kingdoms available for everyone who fits a criteria is set forth. Clal is crowned king over his own kingdom.
- Book 1 -
- Inciting incident - Clal
- Rising action -
- Climax -
- Resolution -
- Book 2 -
- Inciting incident -
- Rising action -
- Climax
- Resolution
- Book 3 -
- Inciting incident
- Rising action
- Climax
- Resolution
- Book 4 -
- Inciting incident
- Rising action
- Climax
- Resolution
- Book 5 -
- Inciting incident
- Rising action
- Climax
- Resolution
- Create a vast amount of detail about your story.
- Make it a mystery, carefully lay clues and reveal intentionally
- Plot it all out.
- Deep characters
- Capitalize on your life experiences
- Use known things and make new ideas from them
- Characters to have their own plots - from beginning to end,
Jenna Moreci - Book Series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbdyg6Xma6g
- Structure
- Standard series - overarching
- Heroes journey as tried to defeat them
- More time to plan
- Desirable for…
- Complex plot
- Divide and conquer
- One goal
- Reclaim kingdom
- Rebuild
- Defeat
- Find sourcerer
- Summoning army
- Use the army and staff to defeat
- Subplot
- Know how subplot will be developed
- Formates
- Companion novels
- Prequels
- Spin offs
- Entry points
- Character Arcs
- Where will the characters end up
- Become evil and die
- Major hurtles
- Don[t know how experiences will change them yet but
- Main character and supporting characters
- General idea
- Type them
- Know how it will all end for mian characters
- Thought Dump
- Write down all ideas
- If knwo genera l plot for each book
- Allows to be free with ideas
- Save them for later
- General Structure
- Plot,
- subplot,
- character arcs
- Thought dumps going
- Vague guideline of how plot will unfold
- Gen format
- Inciting incident
- Rising action
- Climax
- Resolution
- Nail down points for each book
- One page, one day
- Outline the book writing right now
- Should be able to put in foreshadowing
- Don’t outline
- Should I outline?
- Don’t outline every book within the series
- Just outline book you’re working on.
- Allow mind to wander
- Go and do what you are feeling
- Thought dump your ideas then come back to your book
J.K. Rowling Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iATd3W7JQWY
- Sens that the author knows everything - confidence…
- Pace - when things happen - mont
- Month that happens
- Get whether write
- All gave too much away
- Direct all my energy into finishing my work that mattered to me.
- I believed, I can tell a story (and I can
- Immitate writers
- Resign self to write rubbish
- You’ll hit what your thing is
- Persevere
- Read and good and bad stuff
- Learn from that
- 10 years work
- Humor -
- Name of people
- Symbols, house they are in
- Who they are
- Find words that will work
- 15 diff chapters of book one
- The plot to be safe guarded
- Columns
- Whether
- The stuff that has to happen
- Where do the characters come from
- Me
- Sister
- People in my life
- What was is that is to be expected
- Secrecay is huge
- Clues
- Morality
- Mortality
- Cusp of adulthood
- Teenagers
- Vulnerable
- Big issues of life
- Confused
- Relationships
- Characters
- What matters
- Sex, death, music
- Confidence / lack of
- Biggest fear happened, loving family, type writer, and a BIG IDEA.
7 things
- The power of human relationships
- Bonding with shared experiences
- Killing off characters is not
- Everyone has a story - understand how they came to be who they are
- Each character a past
- Dialogue - what they focus on, how they speak
- Primary emotion - convey tha temotion
- Way they speak may change
- Sensory and surprises
- A few details. Visually stunning…
- Because of their uniqueness
- desccription comes through dialogue
- Subtext - sensory description
- Chekov’s Guns - if not fired shouldn’t be there
- Foreshadowing…
- Sprinkling clues
- Something borrowed, something new
- Use things that exist but are new,
- Myths and legends pod casts
- Life’s big questions
- Universal themes
- Write things that go beyond the story