Sorry I havnt been posting…

I have still been doing plenty of writing but my other blog backpackrats.com has taken off and I have been concentrating on growing that into a full time income.

I will try to get another excerpt up here soon.

Three-Act Structure - Plot Map

One of the great workshops at the New Hampshire Writers Project’s Writer’s Day was entitled “Your Book Starts Here” by Mary Carroll Moore. I learned a great deal about how to structure a piece of fiction and was happy to find that the vauge sense of direction in my head already aligned pretty close to what the “Three-Act Structure” prescribed. If you would like to know more I can highly recommend Mary’s workshop which you can find at the NHWP link above.

Here is a photo of the main plot “W”. I blurred out the resolution points to keep y’all in suspense.

I also mapped out the first act in two separate “W”s that the two main characters will follow. Paul-Green; Blackendy-black.

Elicit vs. Illicit - Writing tip of the day

I wish someone with authority with the English language had decided to just spell these the same way. I can never remember which spelling is correct and had to refer to a dictionary for this one.

Elicit: to draw out; to bait

Illicit: illegal

The cop tried to elicit a confession of possession of illicit drugs from the suspect.

(I really like the symmetry of that sentence)