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Storyboard: How to make your story beats easy to map
Learn how to create a storyboard, a simple way to organize your story beats and comprehend your entire novel or screenplay at a glance.
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Anchor Beats: 5 big moments in a story’s life
Just five anchor beats hold together the plot of your novel. Learn how each of these key moments defines the arc that collectively make up a story.
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Research: better results through (of all things) effort
Understanding why research is both critical to developing a story and a whole lot of fun, with a little help from Star Trek.
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The End: a great place to begin your novel
Stories don’t begin at the beginning. They begin in the middle. In Plotter-Oriented writing, therefore, we start by thinking about the END.
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Understand your reader reviews better with NPS
In business we use a Net Promoter Score (NPS) to understand enthusiasm. Learn how to turn reader reviews into something actionable.