Plot Whisperer + Follow Love + Tag You're It = Good Stuff

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This weekend you guys made me blush.  How?  Well, I passed the 200 follower mark and I am thrilled for the love.  I hope you come back often and enjoy what you see.  Leave me a comment too because I am addicted to checking out other blogs.  It gets me all warm and fuzzy inside to find like-minded friends.

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Now, on to writing endeavors...I have found a new love...other than my 202 followers:)  Ok, and maybe it's not brand new, but I'm just getting around to telling you all about it.  What, you may ask, could possibly make me weak in the knees and googly eyed in love?  Martha Alderson is what, or as she is known in the writer's circles...the Plot Whisperer.

How often have you had a story idea that seems an insurmountable obstacle you couldn't possible keep in check so you give it up rather than trying, move on to something you think might be more doable?

My new wip has been this kind of challenge...until I found the Plot Whisperer.  She breaks the story down in such a way that you have no choice but to know the ins and outs of the Protagonist, Antagonists, the world and so on. 

Her plot series layers your novel so important pieces don't get lost or she takes your idea and helps you build a well thought out masterpiece.

Here are her 27 steps from You Tube which are each from 5-10 minutes and well worth your time.  They are:

Step 1: Dramatic Action Plot

Step 2: Character Emotional Development Plot

Step 3: Setting for the Beginning

Step 4: Exotic World

Step 5: 3 Major Plots in Every Story

Step 6: Secondary Plots & Subplots

Step 7: Climax Affect on Beginning (part 1)

Step 8: Climax Affect on Beginning (part 2)

Step 9: Energy Anatomy of the Universal Story

Step 10: Plot the Beginning

Step 11: Turning Points

STEP 12: Goal for the Middle

Step 13: Antagonists in the Middle

Step 14: The Exotic World of the Middle

Step 15: Halfway Point -- Recommitment Scene in the Middle

Step 16: Rediscovered Skills and Knowledge in the Middle

Step 17: Cause and Effect in the Middle (scenes and emotion)

Step 18: Character Emotion and Thematic Significance

Step 19: Creating Conflict & Tension in Prep of Crisis

Step 20: Writing the Crisis

Step 21: Developing the Threshold Scene after the Crisis in the Middle

Step 22: The Beginning of the End

Step 23: Thematic Significance

Step 24: Relationship Bond

Step 25: Develop Scene Sequence to Climax

Step 26: How to Create the Climax

Step 27: Resolution

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Last item of business, I was tagged by uber-talented Juliana Brandt.  If you haven't checked out her blog...click on her name darn-it, she is awesome!

So here we go.

Do you think you're hot?This may be tmi, but it depends on if it's that time of the month or not

Upload a picture or wallpaper that you're using at the moment.
This is for my current wip.  It gets me motivated.

When was the last time you ate chicken meat? For lunch, we had Hawaiian haystacks.

The song(s) you listened to recently.  Arms of an Angel by Sarah McLachlan

What were you thinking as you were doing this? That the guy singing above song on America's Got Talent was rockin' it

Do you have nicknames? What are they?   Umm, yea.  They are in no particular order: Bean, Sunny D, Sweetie Pie, Deana Beana, Smile Child

Tag 8 blogger friends...

Katie Ganshert
Lora Rivera
Robin Weeks
Cara Nelson
Pk Herzo
LisaAnn
Ashley Nixon
Leslie Rose