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Plotting
	Plot Plan 1 (PDF)	The Three-Act Format
	Plot Plan 10 (PDF)	A Fusion Model by Joe Sweeney
	Plot Plan 2 (PDF)	Based on the Three-Act Format
	Plot Plan 3 (PDF)	Eight Point Chronological Arc
	Plot Plan 4 (PDF)	Eight High Concept Plot Points
	Plot Plan 5 (PDF)	Plotting From the Middle, James Scott Bell, ©2014, Compendium Press
	Plot Plan 6 (PDF)	Monomyth (The Hero’s Journey)
	Plot Plan 7 (PDF)	How to Write a Character From Start to Finish, Summarized from Writer’s Digest, February 11, 2013
	Plot Plan 8 (PDF)	Save the Cat! Writes a Novel, Jessica Brody, ©2018, Ten Speed Press
	Plot Plan 9 (PDF)	The Nutshell Technique, Jill Chamberlain, ©2016, University of Texas Press
	Plotting Basics (PDF)	Narrative Arc, Inner & Outer Conflict, Coping with Conflict
	Plotting Through the Middle (PDF)
	Rescuing Your Plot (PDF)	A handout from NaNoWriMo

Resources

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Websites

Sentence Structure

Story Blurb

Character

Plotting

Narrator and Point of View

Scenes

Dialogue and Monologue