Elements of Plot: A Personalized Approach

by Terri Lynn Main

As part of the series Writing Your Novel YOUR Way, this book takes a personalized approach to the process of building a story plan. Read five books about writing a novel and your will find five different ideas for plot outlines. This book takes a different approach. It helps you discover an approach to planning a novel that is consistent with your own personality. You will learn the elements of plot, the strengths and weaknesses of different planning styles and how to optimize your novel planning to your own way of writing. This book strips away the padding and wordiness of many texts on the subject and gets right down to the essentials of turning your idea into a novel.

39 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 22, 2012

About the author

I am a retired college professor. I live in California's Central Valley where it gets hot in summer. I hate summer. Currently, I'm writing full time. I don't think of myself as retired as much as the college is paying me to write my novels and Bible studies. I've been published in just about every venue. Fiction, nonfiction, radio drama, live drama, video documentaries, novels and book length nonfiction. I've been traditionally published in magazine and book format, and I'm currently engaged in Indie writing publishing my own stuff and loving it.

I live a fairly quiet life. I'm a life long single and live with my five cats. So, I'm keeping alive the cultural archetype of the Retired Old Maid School Teacher with Cats.

I write science fiction and cozy mysteries and have combined the two in my Dark Side of the Moon mystery series. I also teach writing and self-publishing in my online classes. Once a teacher....