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a hAnother method on how to write a story. Very character centered and mostly about outlines rather than writing.
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Keith Whitescarvernovel, writing
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Take an hour and write a one-sentence summary of your novel.
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I like to structure a story as "three disasters plus an ending".
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Tuija AaltoTake another hour and expand that sentence to a full paragraph describing the story setup, major disasters, and ending of the novel. This is the analog of the second stage of the snowflake. I like to structure a story as "three disasters plus an ending".
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David WayneHow to write a novel: Award winning author Randy Ingermanson teaches his Snowflake Method for designing and writing a novel.
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But before you start writing, you need to get organized. You need to put all those wonderful ideas down on paper in a form you can use. Why? Because your memory is fallible, and your creativity has probably left a lot of holes in your story -- holes you need to fill in before you start writing your novel. You need a design document. And you need to produce it using a process that doesn't kill your desire to actually write the story. Here is my ten-step process for writing a design document. I use this process for writing my novels, and I hope it will help you.
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