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Episode 169 - How to find a surefire plot.
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Stephen King says there is no idea dump we can visit to find a good plot. We have to create our own plots. How can we do so? Here's a discussion on creating plots. Also, if Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark expedition can learn to write, so can we. And the critical technique of using the active sentence form.
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1. Episode 169 - How to find a surefire plot. (00:00:00)
2. [Ad] Mind Your Midlife: Confidence and Success, One Thought at a Time (00:12:11)
3. (Cont.) Episode 169 - How to find a surefire plot. (00:12:57)
178 episodes
Manage episode 488518276 series 3637128
Stephen King says there is no idea dump we can visit to find a good plot. We have to create our own plots. How can we do so? Here's a discussion on creating plots. Also, if Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark expedition can learn to write, so can we. And the critical technique of using the active sentence form.
Chapters
1. Episode 169 - How to find a surefire plot. (00:00:00)
2. [Ad] Mind Your Midlife: Confidence and Success, One Thought at a Time (00:12:11)
3. (Cont.) Episode 169 - How to find a surefire plot. (00:12:57)
178 episodes
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1 Episode 177 - The description double duty technique. 27:37

1 Episode 174 - How to ruin our story's first sentences. 25:36

1 Episode 171 - Top ten list of bad advice for writers. 29:09

1 Episode 170 - Writing the crowd scene. And guilt and pride. 28:09

1 Episode 168 - Making our first sentence sparkle. 27:17

1 Episode 167 - Revealing our character by the setting. 26:48

1 Episode 166- Showing our character's thoughts. 24:30

1 Episode 164 - Design our cover? And the masters on setting details. 28:36

1 Episode 148: A magical way to end one scene and begin another. 26:02

1 Episode 147 - Make sure it's important and make it short. 25:58

1 Episode 146 - How to make our character unforgettable. 26:01

1 Episode 145 - Bringing our settings to life. 27:03

1 Episode 144 - One sentence can bring our character to life. 26:20

1 Episode 143 - The three most important sentences when writing a scene. 26:53

1 Episode 142 - A big technique for literary writing. 24:50


1 Episode 140 - Tips from Stephen King on writing dialogue. 28:00




1 Episode 136 - Benefits of a character's otherness. 27:06

1 Episode 135 - Maybe the strongest writing tool - contrast. 25:38

1 Episode 134 - A stong technique for describing a character's personality. 29:51


1 Episode 162 - The state fair plotting technique. 27:19

1 Episode 161 - Ways to give readers what they want. 26:46

1 Episode 160 - Should our story have a theme? 24:01

1 Episode 159 - A surefire way to generate plot, the sidekick. 27:09

1 Episode 158 - A lifetime's writing advice reduced to one minute. 22:53

1 Episode 157 - How we writers can create a world. 27:31


1 Episode 155 - The single most important ingredient in an unforgetable story. 24:54

1 Episode 154 - Learning from the masterful writer Edna Ferber. 24:50

1 Episode 153 - A legendary novelist's lesson for us writers. 24:58

1 Episode 152 - How the masters create their settings. 28:32

1 Episode 151 - Mad Magazine, and techniques for riveting dialogue. 27:23

1 Episode 150 - How to deliver a surprise in the story. 27:36

1 Episode 149 - How masterful writers use details. 25:53
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