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Plot Gardening: A Simple Guide to Outlining Your Novel

Write Faster, Write Smarter Series, Book 7

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Plot Gardening: A Simple Guide to Outlining Your Novel

By: Chris Fox
Narrated by: Ryan Kennard Burke
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Learn to plot without sacrificing creativity

What separates great novels from mediocre ones? Story. Authors that master this vital skill keep their readers and listeners up at night, and suffer the deluge of 'when is the next book coming out' emails.

Whether you are a first-time novelist, or a seasoned author, Plot Gardening will teach you the fundamentals of storytelling, delivered in a practical way. Through exercises at the end of each chapter you will build your own outline, and you'll do it without sacrificing the creativity that is so vital to telling great stories.

From this audiobook you'll learn:

  • The basics of story structure, and how it is used
  • How and why worldbuilding is important, and how to do your own worldbuilding
  • The components of great characters, and how you can bring yours to life
  • How to create a living outline that will change and adapt as your characters come to life
©2018 Christopher Fox (P)2018 Christopher Fox Creativity Personal Development
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Simple, strait forward, actionable. Buy this if you're a pancer and need to add some structure to uncovering your fossil. Buy this if you are a plotter and need to speed up your process. It works PERIOD! Plus, with the audio you can listen and type at the same time to get those exercises done!

The BEST plotting book out there!

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I liked it. Informative. Gives a different direction than just outline everything and pantsing. I liked the examples he uses for steps and shows how they work.

Informative

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A refreshing and engaging diction around setting up and flushing out plots, basic character arcs and structures around beats and themes. Not a long listen (under 4 hours). I will have to pick up more of this series.

3 Act Structure AND Story Circle Covered

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If you could read only 1 book on plot, thus would be it. This is a complete guide on plotting your novel from beginning to end.

Complete Guide

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Plot Gardening is clear, concise, and straight to the point. You won't find any new plotting formulas here, just a well packaged breakdown of a few existing plot systems. Chris has a way of taking this daunting subject and making it very accessible.

Just remember to do the exercises. ;)

No Fluff, just actionable info

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Very insightful. Provides a step by step novel structure to help flesh out your novel.

Insightful Story Structure

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Every year or two I come back to this and it gets better and better as do I.

Chris Fox has progressed as an author over the years and I'm lucky to witness the art and artist flourish.

I always come back to this

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I wasn't sure I was going to learn anything new, and I was pleasantly surprised. Good narration. Good information.

Good information

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