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Plotting--How to Go from Predictable to Perfection in Your Storyline

Plotting--How to Go from Predictable to Perfection in Your Storyline

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Mary Carroll Moore
Sep 14, 2012
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Plot is the most basic outer-story structure your book can have.  Fiction and memoir plots are all about action--what happens, where it happens, who is involved.  It's always external, never inside someone's head.  We see plotted events onstage, in front of us.   

Nonfiction writers also use plot.  Their outer story is about the method or ideas they are …

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