What is Reddit's opinion of Storyteller Tools: Outline from vision to finished novel without losing the magic?

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~~By writing it. The story will grow in the telling.~~

Just read down the thread. I think your problem is you're a big picture person and have difficulty drilling down to an actual story.

This was pretty much my problem but I worked out a way around it (see flare). Doing so took a few years and was painful and not exactly a happy experience. So if you PM me, you can have a free copy of this book with my best wishes: http://www.amazon.com/Storyteller-Tools-Outline-finished-without-ebook/dp/B00K6PBXY6

Generally, you need more conflict!

>So, what I need is a bit of coaching on what could go in those areas.

Too much to explain in one blog post.

If you ping me, you can have a review copy of my book on this.

The curse of modern culture is that we often look generic self-helpy factors like mood, motivation and focus as if they were the things to overcome first!

You don't have any trouble playing computer games, do you? So the chances are you are stalling because you don't actually know how to take your intense ideas and collapse them into a linear story. Were you rocking along through your plot, you would have none of these problems!

My advice would be to back up and work out how to achieve what you want to achieve. Go read Stephen King On Writing for starters. (And you can have a free copy of my Storyteller Tools if you pm me with an email address -- I strongly suspect I've been where you are and I now do this writing thing for a living...)

Got the most amazing boost for my writing manual Storyteller Tools: Outline from vision to finished novel without losing the magic: Ken MacLeod, award winning veteran SF writer and teacher - bigger in the UK than USA, I think - actually tweeted about it:

>@mharoldpage Found your book very useful in getting from ideas etc to plot and story.Original Tweet

In other news Keith Richards likes my guitar book! Seriously, it feels both amazing validating and a bit unreal.

Skip to step 4 and look for the conflict!

If that's your problem, then you might find my book useful. A free review copy is yours for the asking.

(Credentials: I am an experienced franchise writer who does this full time and once wrote four traditionally published books inside a year)

Prose. Seriously. Your outline should read like a story told over beer. Plot is fractal.

Beyond that, I use diagramming software to capture my conflicts, and a program called Scrivener to write from outline.

I've written a short non-waffley book on this called <em>Storyteller Tools: Outline from vision to finished novel without losing the magic</em>. If the OP PMs me with an email address, an review copy is theirs for the asking.

I don't know which of these books are any good, or what the credentials of the writers are. What I think is that you should read <em>my</em> book first, which I will send you for free if you PM me.