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Getting started with any writing project can be made a bit easier by the equivalent of cracking your knuckles—by doing some kind of short writing exercise that just gets your hands moving. I know it sounds crazy, but I sometimes think it’s your hands being in motion that let your brain know that “the writing zone” has been entered, far more than the other way around.

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For all those folks out there putting together stories (including the participants of the National Novel Writing Month), here’s a handy little Hipster PDA (3″x5″) set I call the Plot Pack. It includes the following:

1. Story Idea - A place to get started. Jot down your summary, characters, time and places. You can back it with a…
2. Story - A simple note-style template that you can use stand-alone or to back any other card, such as the Story Idea or Character ones.
3. Plot Point - An old tried-and-true method of constructing your plot. Use the top part of the card to write down a sentence describing the plot point or milestone. Rearrange the cards until the order satisfies you. Then use the details part of the card to flesh out the plot point to take into account the cards surrounding it. Use the back for notes, sketches, etc.
4. Storyboard (Single) - A storyboard-style card who prefer to lay out their story visually. A notes/annotation section is included. Also great for filmmakers, videographers, comic book illustrators, and so forth.
5. Storyboard (Double) - Same as above, but with two storyboard panes in lieu of note space.
6. Character - Note your character’s role and physical, mental, social and spiritual attributes. Back by a Story template to relate his or her history, milestones, hopes, fears, desires, dislikes, etc..
7. Item - This rather ambiguous card is there for everything else. Use it for settings, backstories and subplots, geneological relationships, story props, snatches of dialogue, geographical notes, inspirational quotes, or anything else not served by the other cards.

D*I*Y Planner Plot Pack (Hipster PDA)
via [Angela Booth’s Writing Blog]

In last night’s episode of The Night Stalker, newspaper editor Tony Vincenzo sat down with reporter Carl Kolchak to give him a bit of writing advice. It was excellent advice, not only for a reporter for fiction writers, too. And ironically, the key to what I have been struggling with in my current WIP.

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