How to Plot Your Novel FAST, Writing Advice

Today I m going to walk you through my process for quickly plotting a novel. I have a few other videos about plotting, but in this video I wanted to explain how to reason your way to a plot outline based on what you already know about your idea. SHOW NOTES Steps for Plotting a Novel: Summarize your basic idea for the novel and list out the information you already know you want to include in the plot. Ask questions about what you don t know, especially questions that focus on why each element would be relevant to the plot and characters. Create a synopsis (a summary of the plot) that answers the questions you ve posed. Make a list of all the scenes you know should be included in the plot based on your synopsis. Go back into your outline to add scenes and flesh things out (over and over) until you have a full story.