Personal tools

Views

Using Emotional Response for Plot

written by NewMexicoKid on Thursday, September 27th, 2007 at 6:32 am add to b.hatena Hatena Bookmark add to del.icio.us

October is swiftly approaching and my 2007 NaNoWriMo novel idea still lacks most of its plot. What am I to do?

Well, this is one starting point (click on the image to jump to the full diagram):

snapshot_ER

I decided to use Freemind in a brainstorming exercise and I thought about memorable novels and the key points in those stories with the highest emotional resonance. This decomposition to the basic plot that led to the strong emotion is one tool I am using to plan how to achieve similar emotional highs/lows in the reader of my novel.

What do you think? How are you preparing for November?

–NMK

P.S. I’m using the free Microsoft Windows Live Writer to create this post. Thus far it has proven to be a remarkably intuitive tool.

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Trackback URI: http://naperwrimo.org/wp/2007/09/27/using-emotional-response-for-plot-points/trackback/

One Response to “Using Emotional Response for Plot”

  1. pingback from naperwrimo » Using freemind to plan your novel
    September 20th, 2008 at 6:23 pm

    [...] this fall, I used Freemind to create a handy chart mapping the emotional response in readers to plot points. I am also using it to organize all of the background information for my [...]

Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.