5:03 / An Asian Plotting Method / Discovering Plot

Welcome to our 200th episode of The Write Focus.

Yippee! We made it farther than I ever anticipated, 200 episodes and into Season 5, and we still have more episodes ahead. AND it’s all thanks to our listeners, who motivate us to keep offering more and more.

Over our 200 episodes, we’ve covered craft with plot and characters, process with sentence craft, productivity with challenges, and tools for writers.

This episode is an update to an old post, a Blast from the Past, with new insights to make it up-to-date. For those of us raised on western story-telling and conflict and characters, this method will seem an about-face. It works best for shorter tales—stories and novellas rather than novels and epics. As we analyze it, you’ll see the reason I say that.

The next two weeks will have another look back at a plotting method from the early days of The Write Focus. The Plot 7 is not a plot structure. Instead, it’s a method for writers to develop quickly the skeleton of a novel or novella. Let’s call it a Process. After a season on craft, it’s time we looked at process. Oh, and it’s a strong way to supercharge your productivity after a season of disruptions and distractions, totally suitable after the holiday season.

So, without more rattling on, let’s look at our Blast from the Past, Kishotenketsu.

TIMINGS

• 00:00 Welcome
• 00:40 Introduction
• 02:33 Kishotenketsu
• 06:15 Example 1 from Sanyo Rai
• 09:15 Example 2 from Nils Odlund
• 12:50 Analysis
• 16:30 Last Words / Closing

Total Run Time :: 18:15

 

LINKS

Sanyo Rai story = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kish%C5%8Dtenketsu

Nils Odlund story = https://mythicscribes.com/plot/kishotenketsu/

Ebook

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0838PTN49

https://books2read.com/u/bOJK6K

Link to a paperback 8 x 10 bundle for plot / characters / branding / sentence craft, called Discovering Your Writing https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08691892S

Trailer https://youtu.be/hTVQn92kNBk

 

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Our current focus is Discovering Your Plot, from host M.A. Lee’s guidebook of the same name.

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