Tag Archive: Plotting

Apr 28

How does your garden grow?

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Before you get to today’s fun blog — I’ve started a newsletter sign-up. If you’d like to hear from me every couple of months with my publishing news (and, just for fun, I’m going to try to put in an exclusive short story into each newsletter), just add your name to my mailing list by …

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Jun 10

When Characters Take Over

Historical lady

I am the most left brained writer you can imagine. I have worksheets for everything – characters, scenes, story structure, show & tell – you name it, I’ve got a worksheet for it (well, maybe not dialogue – for that and editing I use highlighting, but that’s another post). The point is that I plan …

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Jun 03

Stimulus and Response

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“…in humans, [stimulus and response is] the process whereby sensory stimulation is translated into organized experience. … Among the theoretical models developed to describe the nature of social behaviour, the stimulus–response model (in which every social act is seen as a response to the preceding act of another individual) has been generally found helpful….” I …

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Feb 05

Processing the Process

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I not only walk the walk, I talk the talk, and I put my money where my blog is — is that enough clichés for you?  What I’m trying is say is that after all of my blogging about marketing for the past two weeks, I’m going to start to show you about marketing, rather …

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Nov 28

How Do You Cook?

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What kind of cook are you? Do you follow a recipe to the letter, leveling off your measuring spoon to make sure you have precisely the right amount of each ingredient? Or do you wing it — you know what the end product should be like so you add a bit of this, a splash …

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