Solid Story Compass: How to Be Your Own Developmental Editor

Solid Story Compass: How to Be Your Own Developmental Editor or Script Consultant, Stop Second-Guessing Your Storytelling Decisions, and Prevent Inconsistencies ... Reader Wrath (Iterative Outlining Book 2)
Make Your Story the Best It Can Beâ€¦Without Paying a Pro Thousands of Dollars for Editing or Analysis

Having written.

Itâ€™s a beautiful feeling, isnâ€™t it?

Instead of staring at a pile of blank pages, youâ€™re looking at something else: pages filled with words.

Lovely.

But then, you take a second look at what youâ€™ve written.

That beautiful feeling?

Pfft.

It vanishes.

Somethingâ€™s wrong, but because youâ€™re too close to the material, you canâ€™t pinpoint what it is.

All you know is that your story requires major editing and revision.

Itâ€™s muddled. Awkward. All over the place.

Basically, thereâ€™s a gap (OK, sometimes, itâ€™s more like a chasm) between the story in your headâ€¦and the one youâ€™ve actually penned to paper.

This creates a big problem.

If you donâ€™t take corrective measures, audiences wonâ€™t engage with your screenplay or novel. Instead, theyâ€™ll be too busy trying to figure out what itâ€™s about.

Depending on how uneven your story is, audiences are going to walk away from it feeling anything from minor disgruntlement to major wrath.

Clearly, this is not the way to get book lovers or studios to clamor for your work. Itâ€™s not the way to jumpstart or sustain a writing career.

To achieve the results you want, you need help.

A Developmental Editor or Script Consultant to the Rescueâ€¦?

With cool objectivity, a talented developmental editor or script consultant can explain whatâ€™s wrong, whatâ€™s weak, and whatâ€™s not workingâ€”and dish out the fixes.

Finding a good one, however, is about as easy as finding an honest politician. Not only that, developmental editors and script consultants arenâ€™t cheap.

They can cost anywhere from hundreds to thousands of dollars.

Until you find your dream editor or consultantâ€”whose sensibility, availability, and affordability suit your needsâ€”what can you do?

You canâ€™t send your story out into the world the way it is, not when itâ€™s a mass of inconsistency thatâ€™s sure to trigger negative reviews or brutal coverage.

Nope. Thatâ€™s not going to cut it.

Until you find your perfect editorial match, you must learnâ€¦

How to Edit a Novel or Screenplayâ€”On Your Own

Instead of hiring a developmental editor or script consultant, youâ€™ll construct a 5-pointed story compass.

By breaking down â€œthe big pictureâ€ into 5 specific areas, your compass makes it easier to identifyâ€”and fixâ€”whatâ€™s wrong.

For instance, without your story compass, you might vaguely sense that somethingâ€™s off about your climax. With your compass, youâ€™ll know that the behavior of the villainâ€™s henchmen needs to be changed since it messes up your storyâ€™s tone.

Should a scene be keptâ€¦or deleted?

Your story compass can help you there, too. No matter how inventive or well written, if a scene doesnâ€™t adhere to your compass points, itâ€™s irrelevant. It must be cut (or heavily revised).

Ultimately, with your story compass, youâ€™ll be able to edit your own writing and bridge the gap between the story in your head and the story on the page.

Consequently, rather than falling into this gap, audiences are free to immerse themselves in the world youâ€™ve carefully built up, from scratch.

A Sampling of What You Will Accomplish with This Step-By-Step Writing Guide
- Youâ€™ll smooth out your plot and avoid comments like, â€œit was all over the placeâ€ or â€œit unraveled quickly.â€
- Youâ€™ll answer 2 questions to verify that backstory hasnâ€™t taken over the main plot.
- Youâ€™ll ensure that audiences invest in your heroâ€”instead of in another character.
- Youâ€™ll maximize genreâ€™s ability to be your personal rainmaker.
- Youâ€™ll confidently tackle 5 kinds of tonal inconsistencies.
- Youâ€™ll use 6 tools to extract potential themes from your story; after which, youâ€™ll polish one of them until it shines.
Buy this writing guide now and become your own developmental editor or script consultant today!
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-05-13
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-05-13
Format	Kindle eBook

Solid Story Compass: How to Be Your Own Developmental Editor or Script Consultant, Stop Second-Guessing Your Storytelling Decisions, and Prevent Inconsistencies ... Reader Wrath (Iterative Outlining Book 2)

Make Your Story the Best It Can Beâ€¦Without Paying a Pro Thousands of Dollars for Editing or Analysis

A Developmental Editor or Script Consultant to the Rescueâ€¦?

How to Edit a Novel or Screenplayâ€”On Your Own

A Sampling of What You Will Accomplish with This Step-By-Step Writing Guide

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