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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IDEA, PREMISE, AND PLOT

By: Janice Hardy @Janice_Hardy

Ideas come to us every day, from big bolt-from-the-blue inspiration to smaller “what if” musings. 

What's sneaky about ideas is that they're easy--it’s figuring out the story behind the idea that can be the hard part. I’ve had many a premise get me excited, only to discover later that I didn’t have a story, much less a plot, that would go with it. 

This is one of the reasons some novels stall after fifty or a hundred pages. The writer gets an idea, dives in too soon, and then the story go splat. 

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1. The Difference Between Idea, Premise, and Plot http://t.co/IKoWO7zBUL via  #@Janice_Hardy
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3. The 7 Basic Plots: Tragedy http://ow.ly/lImXf via @write_practice        
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7. How to (Really) Make $1,000,000 Selling E-Books – Real-World Case Studies http://ow.ly/lInsd
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10. The Real Costs of Self-Publishing a Book http://ow.ly/lInG5
11. 5 Reasons I Switched to Scrivener for All My Writing http://ow.ly/lInIl via @MichaelHyatt
12. All the Publishing Information You Ever Wanted http://ow.ly/lInLI via @RachelleGardner
13. Why a free chapter is a lousy thing to give away if you want to sell a book http://ow.ly/lInPe
14. Is Interior Book Design a Commodity? http://ow.ly/lInYO via @jfbookman
15. What Should You Expect from a Freelance Editor? (A Timely Debate) http://ow.ly/lIo1e via Writer Unboxed
16. Quick and Dirty Math: How Many Self-Published Authors Are Making a Living? http://ow.ly/lIonK via @PassiveVoiceBlg
17. How To Use HTML To Format KDP Kindle Book Descriptions http://ow.ly/lKIx1
18. Write What Haunts You http://ow.ly/lKitx via @JaneFriedman 

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