Writing 101: How to Craft a Plot
Crafting a great plot is a writer's best tool for storytelling—and here, Lisa Ko opens up about how you can develop a knack for it with approachable exercises and thought provoking questions. For more, join her on Skillshare: https://skl.sh/3ohrUfB
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PLOT WRITING WORKSHOP QUICK JUMP MENU
00:00 What Is Plot?
01:59 How to Use These Exercises
02:27 Generating Story Ideas: Asking "Why?"
04:07 Building the Scene and the Structure of Your Story
06:08 Defining + Confronting Your Character's Core Belief
07:00 Writing the "Movie Treatment" of Your Story
07:39 Dividing Your Story into Three Themes
08:57 Keep Learning with Skillshare
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ABOUT LISA KO
Lisa Ko is the author of The Leavers, which was a 2017 National Book Award for Fiction finalist, won the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, and was a finalist for the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award and the 2017 Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award. The Leavers was named a best book of the year by NPR, Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, The Los Angeles Times, Electric Literature, and others. Her writing has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2016, The New York Times, BuzzFeed, O. Magazine, and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the MacDowell Colony, among others. In Writing Fiction: 5 Exercises to Craft a Compelling Plot, join her for an approachable, actionable class on the most powerful tool in a writer’s toolkit: https://skl.sh/3ohrUfB