nano_writers | Let's Build a World: Day 27

Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes; every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play.

- Francis Quarles

It's Day 27 for Nano Writers's Let's Build a World. Read over - Plot Hooks - from Stephanie Bryant's 30 Days of Worldbuilding. Notebooks ready? Then let's tackle today's exercise:

If you don't have an outline, look at your plot hooks and see if you can group them together ("well, these all have something to do with goats...."). If you can, cluster them together and talk about the most interesting cluster when you start your novel.

Here are a couple of websites that may be helpful for the writing process in general:

A Primer on Story Writing - humorous, somewhat tongue-in-cheek but many are too true, from The Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi

Warming Up: Ten Exercises for Fiction Writers - by Dr. Erika Dreifus, editor and publisher of the free monthly newsletter, "The Practicing Writer."

How to write a novel from Google's autocomplete - a variation (of a kind) of the "what if?" question

So three more days, Nano Writer! Are you hooked yet? See you tomorrow!