dawnstonedagger: twitter.com/matociquala/status/755093086724730880 Ultimately yes.That said,
dawnstonedagger:https://twitter.com/matociquala/status/755093086724730880Ultimately yes.That said, reading those books and talking to people who talk about midpoints and sequels, etc, helped me improve my plotting a lot, by pointing out the things I usually do on instinct, and pointing out where I hadn’t done so, and how I could make a story stronger. Gave me a new vocabulary to find and fix story weaknesses, I guess. (I am notoriously bad about not pushing things to the breaking point when they need to be.)When I was first learning this stuff, I would do things like “ah yes, well I need some sort of sequel here” so I’d throw something half-assed into place just to say I had that, but gradually I learned how to incorporate the ideas better beyond just “the book says I need Thing here.”But as long as your focus is that last tweet, how you get there is up to you. -- source link