Plot points for a novel

Comparing The Seven Basic Plots by Christopher Booker to Dramatica Story Theory

In part two of our One Year novel series, we tackle the beginning blocks of your story: the premise! Here's how you can construct a strong yet concise premise for your novel using JotterPad.

Ready to write that novel but don’t know how to organize your thoughts? Are you a planner/plotter? Do you need meticulous outlines before you start drafting? Are you working with multiple timelines that you need to keep track of? This simple, minimalist four-page Novel Planning Template will help you organize your plot, alongside the timeline and POV for each chapter/section of your novel. You can instantly download the digital print files after your purchase. Both .png and .pdf files will…

Literary fiction writers tend to avoid plot. We’re trained to be plot snobs, focused only on character development and description and point-of-view amongst other things. But your story can’t be plotless. Plot is tension, plot is drama, plot IS story. So we must learn to fuse plot and character seam

What are the seven basic story plots? Well, there are two story plot types and they are plot-driven story and character story driven. SO how does this work? plot driven vs character driven, plot driven story, plot driven books, character driven plot outline. Do you need to learn how to write a novel? Well, you are in luck. This image will help you with how to write a novel outline, how to write a novel step by step, how to write a novel in 30 days and so on.

Outlining can be both the most exciting and sometimes the most difficult part of the writing process, especially when you’re trying to draft a novel in only 30 days. So I came up with a solut…