Simple Plot Outline

Do you write your story or do you plot it out?

Everyone has a different way to write.  There is no right or wrong way.  If you are writing, you are a writer.

This is how I am Plotting out my Book I Forgive. 

From this Blog Post on, I will be explaining my writing process.  In my book

How To Write 12 E-Books In One Year

If you want to get your feet wet and write a short story and get it published, this is the way to go.

I tell you my process of writing a short story a month for a year.

This year, I am writing a 100.000 word novel.  I will be blogging on how I do it, word count and how I find the time to write, while working full time.

This is my Simple Plot Outline.

Every story has Major Points that move the story forward and changes the characters 

This is for 100,000 Word Novel.

Plot Point 1 :  Chapter 5

Plot Point 2:  Chapter 10

Plot Point 3 Chapter 15

Dark Moment:  Chapter 18

Resolution:  Chapter 20


For 50,000 Word Novel:

 Plot Point 1:  Chapter 3

Plot Point 2:  Chapter 6

Dark Moment:  Chapter:  Chapter 8

Resolution:  Chapter 10

I write the plot points out.  (Major Scene that will move the story forward and change the character, part of the Character Ark.

3 scenes per chapter.

60 scenes for 100,000 word novel

30 scenes for 50,000 word novel

You can have more scenes or less scenes.  This is a guide line.

Then I list all the scenes that I want.

I get a legal pad or notebook and list scenes that I want in the book.  I brain storm.

This is my Simple Plot Outline

Outline:

In a notebook or legal pad:

Chapter 1

Scene 1

Scene 2

Scene 3

Chapter 2

Scene 1

Scene 2

ETC.

When I get to the chapter of my Plot Point:

Chapter 5

Scene 1

Scene 2

Scene 3

Plot Point:  Write it here

Do this for all Chapters.

Then as you write, you know where your plot points are.

You have a list of scenes,

You know how the story will end.

As you write, you probably will change things.  This is not written is stone, but you know where you are going and you won't go off in a different direction.

I have done this already.

I did this on my breaks and lunch at work.  I carry a notebook at work, I am always writing on my breaks, at my lunch, in my car.  I discovered that if I don't write it down when I am thinking about it, I forget.

Let me know what you think?

Will this work for you?

How do you plot out your Novel?

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