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THE SCENE CARD METHOD | solving story problems & fixing the "all is lost"

Kate Cavanaugh Writes

This week's blog is about how to plan your work when you are naturally resistant to plotting, a discovery writer, or a pantser.

I fully admit that I am a pantser by nature. I love to dive headfirst into writing and figure it out as I go… until it stops working and I hit the wall bug on a windshield style. Over the years, I’ve tried to devise a way to balance out my discovery writer side, which I need to be enthused about writing, with my need to know where I’m going to avoid creating a colossal, unsolvable mess. I like…

So, thanks to the wonderful, lovely and amazing prompts from the KakaIru Maze Challenge 2021 I now have my first idea and very very rough outline for a longer fic (first time for a longer fic too!). 

I am mortified though, because I have no clue how to plan it, and I have a sneaking suspicion that if I do my in the spur of the moment type of writing it’s not going to work out.

So I am researching. 

Found something called Scene Cards, so I’m thinking that next, I should try to break down the main developments of the story into scenes. I should make a writing schedule too, I think. I would hate to miss the mark.

Next, I found something called Beat Sheets, which did not make any sense at all in the beginning. Too many obscure names and descriptions. 

Lo and behold, I stumbled upon this absolute GOLD MINE https://jamigold.com/for-writers/. Finally the explanations I craved and a more simple Beat Sheet to start out with. There’s even a worksheet on how to beta!! I’m so excited. 

Hello and thanks for stopping by!  Today, I am sharing a cute card I made with the Taylored Expressions Love Grows Here kit.   If you know Taylored Expressions and are a fan of their product releases, then you probably know that their wildly popular kits are released once a month and are limited in number.   The Love Grows Here kit was no exception, the kit is sold out unfortunately. There are…

Scene Cards for Novel Prepping

In this #PrepTober article we talk about some ways you can make scene cards for NaNoWriMo this year.  Have you ever used scene cards to plan your novels? A scene card can be as complicated or as uncomplicated as you want it to be. You can make as many or as few as you think you will need. Whether a physical card or a digital card, scene cards can help you to sort out where the scenes in your…