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  1. *New* CRUCIAL WRITING SKILL: SEPARATING THE NECESSARY FROM THE UNNECESSARY (Video)
  2. *New* COLLIDING TWO STORY IDEAS TOGETHER (Video)
  3. WHY LEARNING YOUR CRAFT AS A WRITER IS CRUCIAL (Video)
  4. DRAMATIC WRITING
  5. STORY ALCHEMY: METHOD AND MADNESS (Video)
  6. JUMPSTART STORIES USING DILEMMA, ENNEAGRAM, AND THE 36 DRAMATIC SITUATIONS (Video)
  7. THE POWER OF DILEMMA
  8. HOW SOMEONE ACTS WHEN TRAPPED IN A DILEMMA (Video)
  9. JAKE'S DILEMMA IN TRAINING DAY (Video)
  10. TURN STORY INTO DRAMA (Video)
  11. ADVANCED WRITING TECHNIQUE THAT HELPS YOU WRITE ANYTHING, WITH AN HOUR ON SCRIPTWRITING JUST ADDED (Video)
  12. TEN RIGHT ANSWERS: STAYING FLUID AS YOU BUILD STORIES (Video)
  13. WORKING WITH THEME AS YOU BUILD A SCRIPT (Video)
  14. CHAPTER ON THEME FROM WRITING A GREAT MOVIE (Document)
  15. INTRODUCTION TO WRITING A GREAT MOVIE (Document)
  16. THE NINE ENNEAGRAM PERSONALITY TYPES AT A GLANCE (Document)
  17. BLOG: THROWING HAND GRENADES INTO DEVELOPING STORIES
  18. VANQUISH WRITER'S BLOCK FOREVER (Video)
  19. 36 DRAMATIC SITUATIONS: DEFINING EACH SITUATION (Document)
  20. RESOLVING THE DILEMMA (Video)
  21. THEME: THE HEART OF YOUR STORY (Video)
  22. YOU NEED KNOW-HOW, NOT MERE KNOWLEDGE (Video)
  23. eBOOK: BUILD YOUR PLOT BACKWARDS
    2 Topics
  24. THREE WISHES: BUILDING A COMEDY FROM SCRATCH
    2 Topics
  25. USE LOGIC TO TIE YOUR STORY TOGETHER
    2 Topics
  26. WHAT IS A STORY'S UNDERLYING STRUCTURE? (Video)
  27. JAMES CAMERON'S PROCESS BUILDING A SCRIPT
    4 Topics
  28. COMING ATTRACTIONS: IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
    3 Topics
  29. FIVE-HOUR CLASS ON TOOL 7: SEQUENCE, PROPOSITION, PLOT
    6 Topics
  30. INSPIRATION: DEEP BREATHING FOR WRITERS
    4 Topics
  31. SLOW IS FAST: TAKE YOUR TIME AND GET IT RIGHT (Video)
  32. BUILDING SIMPLE STORIES WITH REVERSE CAUSE AND EFFECT
    2 Topics
  33. OPERATING MANUAL FOR THE TOOLS (Document)
  34. CREATE CONSISTENT COMPELLING CONFLICT
    2 Topics
  35. SPECIAL GUEST: PLAYWRIGHT TIM FRIED-FIORI ON BUILDING A SCRIPT AROUND A DILEMMA (Video)
  36. MORE ABOUT TRAINING DAY
    5 Topics
  37. MORE ABOUT DILEMMA
    5 Topics
  38. MORE ABOUT THE 36 DRAMATIC SITUATIONS
    3 Topics
  39. MORE ABOUT THE ENNEAGRAM
    2 Topics
  40. MORE ON REVERSE CAUSE AND EFFECT
    2 Topics
  41. DON'T GET TRAPPED WRITING ONLY WHAT YOU KNOW (Video)
  42. ON THE CRAFT OF WRITING
    5 Topics
  43. CREATING WITH THE ENNEAGRAM AND THE 36 DRAMATIC SITUATIONS (Video)
  44. BLOG: CHAOS AS A STORYTELLING TOOL
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eBOOK: BUILD YOUR PLOT BACKWARDS

Jeff October 15, 2022

Good plotting requires tight construction so that the story progresses well without getting bogged down by the Unnecessary. Overwriting kills stories. It’s like trying to take a brisk walk in two feet of snow. But how to you find that which is Necessary to the story’s forward action and keep out the Unnecessary, which tries to flood in at every opportunity? One tried and true technique is to work backward from your story’s ending, stitching the events together by cause and effect. You do this once you’ve roughed-out its basic building blocks, chaining back from each effect to its cause. The eBook explains it thoroughly and the companion video demonstrates it in action.