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Oct 5, 2024 at 5:52pm
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Oct 6 (Freebie) Plotting Strategies
We have a fee day on Sun October 6, but we should be getting into the nitty gritty of planning our novel (shout out to all you planners out there!).

As such, I think the ways of plotting could be looked at to give you an idea of what is out there.

"20240620 Plotting Techniques Part 1
"20240621 Plotting Techniques Part 2

This covers some of the more common ones.

For plantsers, here's a technique that a friend of mine introduced me to:
Chase the cat!

What this means is you plot the first 3 chapters.
When you finish chapter 2, plot the next 3 chapters based on what you have written thus far.
When you get to chapter 5, repeat... and so on, adding 3 more chapters whenever you have one chapter left to write.

Just some things to contemplate!
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