Earlier this year, at BYU’s “Life, the Universe, and Everything” writers’ symposium, Dan Wells gave a presentation on a system for structuring/scaffolding a plot in 7 points. Thankfully (because it was very good), someone put together the videos of that presentation along with some of the slides from Dan’s powerpoint file.

You need to watch the videos. Go here and get started:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C430F6A783A88697

Highly informative and easily grasped, this is the sort of tip that can take you from being stuck in a story idea (trying to work out the kinks) to moving forward, putting words on the page.

Note that this is different from the typical 7-point plot that I’ve seen discussed elsewhere.

(Dan Wells is a Horror writer and one of the voices you hear on the weekly podcast at Writing Excuses.)

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