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    Another good set of tips from Writer's Edit on story planning.

    I like their bit on premise and framework.

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    If anyone wants a fun challenge to get a story down to page, Nanowrimo is a favourite for many aspiring writers for this reason. It happens every November where a writer sets a goal of how many words they will write for the month. The minimum being 50K worth of words.

    https://www.nanowrimo.org/

    These are great for people that struggle to create a great peace, thank you for sharing this with everyone :)

    Can't recall if I posted resources for outlining.

    Writer's Digest has a good basic how-to on story outlining.
    https://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/7-steps-to-creating-a-flexible-outline-for-any-story

    https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-outline-your-novel this one branches off into a paid master class program. You can still get some tips for free from the article.

    This author addresses some outlines to cater for different types of writers.
    https://jerryjenkins.com/how-to-outline-a-novel/

    My 2-cents: Everyone outlines differently. I generally follow a 3-Act outline, drilled down into segments and chapter goals. Segments are story parts within an act (eg. the climax, catalytic moment...). My outline pattern follows something like below:

    • Story Outline = Act 1, Act 2, Act 3.
    • Segment outline = Act1: Segment 1, Segment 2...
    • Chapter goals = Segment 1: Chapter goal 1...

      Any other cool insight post from Writer's Edit. If you have twitter, it's worthwhile to follow them for writing advice/tips.

        Another issue that a lot of drafts face (from newbie and seasoned writers) is run-on sentences.

        Grammarly has a good article explaining what these are.
        https://www.grammarly.com/blog/run-on-sentence-basics/

        Grammarly's examples below:

        [Incorrect]Lila enjoyed the bouquet of tulips John gave her on prom night however she prefers roses.
        [Correct]Lila enjoyed the bouquet of tulips John gave her on prom night; however, she prefers roses.

        Basically a run on sentence is stringing two separate conditions together and not placing a punctuation in between to separate the two kind of what I'm doing with this sentence that I'm writing right now.

        It may seem obvious on screen, but it's quite a common thing to do when drafting from thought for the first time. Especially when writing is still a new skill. It may not be easy to determine punctuation rules between clauses. So it's handy to have a tool like Grammarly to flag the places where pauses are likely needed. This will slowly train the eye for the splits.

        Also, with Grammarly's correct example. It would be better to substitute the semi colon ( ; ) with a full stop (.) instead, making them separate sentences and statements.

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          Haha. I'm grading papers (senior high). Full stop apparently is the scariest key on the keyboard. You just can't use it. Better safe than sorry and go for the comma -- fifteen times in a row...

            Another good set of tips from Reedsy focused on character design. I recommend signing up to Reedsy's newsletters for a regular dose of writing tips and insight.

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