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Blake Snyder's Beat Sheet and Scrivener

February 18, 2014 Belinda CrawfordWriting process

About the same time I revisted the BS2, Jami Gold posted an excellent article about using beat sheets with Scrivener. What I liked most about the article was the idea of using the target word count for individual chapters and […]

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Blake Synder's Beat Sheet, with template

January 27, 2014 Belinda CrawfordIn Review, Writing process

Best for those outling a new work. What’s awesome about it The word count for each beat What’s not-so-awesome It’s daunting, especially when your manuscript is half-written No capacity to outline subplots The awesome When I first came across Blake […]

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Exploring the Snowflake method

July 27, 2013 Belinda CrawfordWriting, Writing process

The Snowflake method is the brainchild of Randy Ingermanson. Freely available online, it’s one of the first methods/writing processes that I started playing around with. It’s great for plotters, although pantsers might like to give it a pass, since it’s heavy on […]

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A writer's notebook for Scrivener

July 7, 2013 Belinda CrawfordWriting
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Second draft progress. Whoo!

February 6, 2013 Belinda CrawfordThe Hero Rebellion, Writing

For the past month, between work,  karate and finally reading Divergent (excellent book, by the way), I’ve been working on the second draft of Hero. And although I haven’t made as much progress as I would have liked, and I’m […]

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Revising Hero and the Pantser's Beat Sheet

January 11, 2013 Belinda CrawfordThe Hero Rebellion, Writing

Just after Christmas, I finished the first draft of Hero and since the New Year I’ve been hard at work on the second draft. Dan Wells’s 7-point plot system (aka the Pantser’s Beat Sheet) has been incredibly helpful during the […]

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Beat sheet to the rescue, pantser-style

December 18, 2012October 26, 2020 Belinda CrawfordWriting

A few weeks ago, I was at the half-way point of my first draft and having trouble with my plot. After ten months of steadily pounding away at the keyboard and chipping at the word count, I was increasing asking […]

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