Anatomy of Story Archive
After working out my series premise and the the premise line for book 1, I analyzed it following the methodology in John Truby’s Anatomy of Story. I looked for what the audience expectations would be, what the potential challenges of …
I was continuing to work on my series premise and overarching considerations today and finally landed on an explanation that gives my hero positive action as well as stakes that go beyond herself. Better, I even managed to condense it …
Thanks to renewed drive over the past two days, I have been able to churn through the remaining coaching projects and get back to my writing with a vengeance! I am still working on plotting my hero’s emotional arc with …
In addition to the primary action of this story, which involves my hero’s flight from danger to safety, she is also going through the emotional journey of accepting her power. For the purpose of creating my scene outline, I am …
Today, I started trying to map specific events in my story to the 22 plot steps from Truby’s Anatomy of Story. I have multiple storylines going on in this book, but for now, I’m working on the hero’s core journey …
After finishing my primary characters yesterday, I’m starting my plot work today. But at the same time, I’m really struggling with how to do this. I think one of the reasons my last book didn’t work was because I tried …
Today, I finally caught up on my pending transcription editing, plus I got the last few bits of my final character interview complete. In the process, I think I’ve become a bit sympathetic to the primary antagonist for this first …
Today, I sat down to try to start shaping my antagonist, but before I could get to the character profile, I ended up having to do a little geopolitical work. Since this is an epic fantasy, ultimately, the fate of …