How To Make A Story

Transcript 1. adding bones

Writer Dante Medema uses a technique where she colour codes each type of thread on sticky notes and pairs everything into a scene in order to get "A birds eye view to see what threads don't follow all the way through"

(TikTok: @dantemedemabooks)

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USE 'BAR' TECHNIQUE

B: Bigger.
What to make bigger? What needs scaling up? What needs to be exaggerated? More grand?

A: Add.
What could be added? What needs a better description?

R: Remove.
What doesn't need as much detail? Can this scene still work without this? What parts are simply unnecessary?

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[Chapter 1] (Name of chapter (optional for now))

Write your full story.

Yep, the whole thing.

Flesh it out and add details later in the second and third transcripts, add even more every transcript.

Be as messy and non descriptive as you want, just as long as you can understand it when you go back and read it later.

Don't have your readers in mind at all (at least not yet).

If you get stuck on something, don't dwell on it, just put it in brackets and move on.

eg:
blah blah blah, he then picks up (thing) and puts it on the (find name for table) blah blah.

blah blah
(epic fight scene)
blah blah.

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BEST ADVICE:

Do NOT delete anything.

If you dont want a certain part or sentence in the story, cut and paste it into a separate document so you can save it for use somewhere else.

Save everything. quotes, descriptions, especially the manuscripts- transcripts- ... (your attempts to write story thing)

lol, even i forgot the name...