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Award Winning Author Maris Soule

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How Many Plots Are There?

July 20, 2016

Back in May a new writer asked how to keep others from copying her plot. My answer was: “There are only so many plots, so everyone is copying. It’s how each individual presents the plot that makes one story different from another.” The discussion then moved into how many plots are there? There is no […]

How Do You Plot?

February 22, 2012

Next week I’ll be on a panel at Sleuthfest where we’ll all be talking about our methods of plotting a mystery. That’s had me thinking. How do I plot a story, be it a mystery or a romance?  When I first started writing (eons ago) I really had no idea how to plot, which my […]