Category: 6. Outline Beats
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Story Structure: Exploring the Lester Dent Story Formula
In the 1930s, the Lester Dent story formula enabled the author to quickly produce and sell books. Today, The Trellis Method does even more.
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Busy Writers: Validate Your Story Premise to Confirm a Winning Strategy
An essential step in creating commercial fiction is to validate your story premise. It’s easier than you may think, and I’ll show you how.
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Writing Tools and Self-publishing Apps
I’ll show how to find the writing and self-publishing apps most writers need to satisfy readers’ expectations, like the top authors.
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Writers Increase Your Sales: Learn from an Amazon Expert the Secret to Mastering Keywords and Categories
An overview of what I learned from Dave Chesson’s phenomenal course: Mastering Keywords and Categories, tips I can use to increase sales!
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Writing Principles: The Top 6 Writing Principles Writers Can Use to Capture the Hearts of Readers
Accomplished author and freelance proofreader and editor Kelsey Bryant shares how to capture the hearts of readers.
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All About Scene Action Beats
Examples of scene action beats, how to recognize when overused, and what to put in their place to elevate our storytelling style.
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Break Out of the Mold: Creating Fresh Similes and Metaphors for Your Scenes
These tips on similes and metaphors used within scenes offer excellent ways to enhance your writing with words that engage readers.
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Master Story Structure – Part 6
In Master Story Structure – Part 6, use the Story Beats to create the synopsis of L. Frank Baum’s action fantasy, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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Master Story Structure – Part 5
In Master Story Structure – Part 5, explore how the Story Beats apply to Act 3 of L. Frank Baum’s action fantasy, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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Master Story Structure – Part 4
In Master Story Structure – Part 2, explore how the Story Beats apply to Act 2B of L. Frank Baum’s action fantasy, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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Master Story Structure – Part 3
In Master Story Structure – Part 3, explore how the Story Beats apply to Act 2A of L. Frank Baum’s action fantasy, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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Master Story Structure – Part 2
In Master Story Structure – Part 2, explore how the Story Beats apply to Act 1 of L. Frank Baum’s action fantasy, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.