Beemgee

From the Idea to the #Story.
Professional Story Development Tool
for Plot Structure and Motivated Characters. #yourstory

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Our #Podcast "How #Stories Work".
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When in a novel by Charles Dickens you, dear reader, are directly addressed, then already there is some sort of discrepancy between the person saying “dear reader” to you and Charley Dickens the man. https://t.co/Awapplci30 On the role of the narrator. #amwriting #writingtips

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A protagonist is a chance for your audience to see how it is possible to feel, act, grow and change – if they weren’t trapped within their own self. https://t.co/24Xizcb8qr #amwriting #WritingCommunity #writinglife

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The author knows the state of protagonist, characters, story world, and audience at the END of the tale and BEGINNING. The more contrast, the better. https://t.co/rMGi6EdCya. After these two realities, the author works out the steps needed to get all from one state to the other.

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Exposition is not as effective as action. The audience wants to see things happen. It's important for authors to find plot events https://t.co/h9qqrvWZFB to convey information, especially about feelings of characters. Plot events dramatise information. #amwriting #showdonttell

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A character may be suppressing a secret and unaware of their real need – https://t.co/YWRq09hLCc. Something they did (better than something that happened to them) causes shame or guilt. They need healing. Authors dramatise such inner conflict through plot events. #amwriting

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Das war besonders schön auf der @autorinnenrunde #lar23 #lbm! Tolle Leute kennengelernt und gute Gespräche gehabt. Vielen Dank!

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We're looking forward to speaking with authors about their stories at the Leipzig Bookfair! #lbm23 #lar23

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Wir freuen uns auf @OlafBryanWielk:

»Dennoch gibt es erkennbare Muster, die in Geschichten immer wieder auftauchen, besonders in sehr erfolgreichen.«

▶ https://t.co/hGT0bAvU2o

#lbm23 #lar23 @buchmesse @leipzigermesse

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“Writing is about structure and words”, so Sidney Lumet. https://t.co/yBhiGmqgoK. We think the structure is like a tree trunk and the leaves are words. #writing #amwriting #amwritingfiction #writingtips for the #WritingCommunity

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Though so many of us would like to work as an author, the fewest of people with the inclination to write #stories actually make a living off it. Yet more content is being produced than ever! In https://t.co/6S7VPshXE1 we look at short form commercial stories. #writing #amwriting

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Start with the end? https://t.co/F4lfLH7vgB Stories that catch up with themselves have two dramaturgical strongpoints. #writing #amwriting #amwritingfiction #storytelling

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Characters, plot, language or style, meaning. Backstory? Time and place? Story world? Exposition? Conflict? Change? What else are essential elements of story? #amwriting #amwritingfiction #storytelling

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A character has reason to perform a story action, there is a cause .... And an effect that the character wants to achieve by it. But the author’s craft is to surprise the character (and the audience) by making the outcome different from expectation. https://t.co/0Lq9gH6E2D

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Each plot event reveals information. The audience knows more having been exposed to each successive event. So one way of looking at plot events is as units of story information. Only when each event is known to the audience do they know the ‘whole story’. https://t.co/Hxb5tJma2m

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There is a form of need that provides an impetus for the character’s behaviour and a reason for the audience to care. What a character cares about makes us care for the character. https://t.co/pQPFBqjvm4

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A story has a beginning, middle, and end. The middle bit is long and tricky. In our new article https://t.co/XdqDlFGP5J we show how to sustain the tension and avoid the 'saggy middle'.

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In his new book, this time for children, #UnstoppableUs: How Humans Took Over the World, Sapiens author @harari_yuval says that #storytelling is the superpower that sets human beings apart from the rest of the animals. So https://t.co/xg0Lz6E2gV is a way to hone a superpower!

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Characters have wants and needs, so the #story goes. But actually there's a little more to it than that, as #writers will know. Here's our cheatsheet for #amwritingfiction.

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Only just saw this: "... being able to view my plot timeline and character’s lives unfold both chronologically and based on the story’s timeline with the flick of a toggle is incredible. No other service does this to my knowledge!"
thx @michaelperrigo in https://t.co/fB9GW6QV15.