Come up with the major plot points that will encourage my character to grow based on the theme of her journey.I had about 40,000 very rough words written, as I had taken the same approach I usually do in writing a book. I had finally finished the last of my edits on Perfectly Undone and I was ready to start digging into Book 2.
The book released at the perfect time for me. Today, I want to tell you why I’m firmly on the “pro” side. These topics have always resulted in heated debates and with Cron’s strongly-stated arguments, it’s no wonder the book has put people firmly only one side of the fence or the other about using her techniques. It made quite a ripple through the writer-verse, combating notions we have long held tightly to amongst our kind–notions like plotting versus pantsing, and plot-driven versus character-driven stories. If you haven’t heard of it, Story Genius is the latest in long list of craft books we writers try to keep up on to stay sharp with our craft, and constantly find new ways to be better, more productive writers. It’s pretty much become my answer to all life’s problems. (Maybe it’s me beating you over the head with it. For me, it has come up in conversation at least several times a week in every writing community I’m a part of since its release! You may have even been beaten over the head with it. We’re hardwired to love problem solving when we figure something out, the brain releases an intoxicating rush of neurotransmitters that say, “Good job!”10 The pleasure of story is trying to figure out what’s really going on (which means that stories that ignore the first two facts tend to offer the reader no pleasure at all).If you’re a part of the writing community, no doubt you’ve heard about Story Genius by Lisa Cron. We run the scenario on the page through our own personal experience of similar events, whether real or imagined, to see whether it’s believable (which gives us the ability to infer more information than is on the page-or go mad when there isn’t enough information for us to infer anything at all).9 3. As we’ll explore in chapter 10, the brain is wired to hunt for meaningful patterns in everything, the better to predict what will happen next based on the repetition or the alteration of the pattern (which means, first and foremost, that there need to be meaningful patterns for the reader to find).8 2.
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