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USING STORY BEATS TO INCREASE WRITING SPEED

By: David Gaughran

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Preparing Your Beats (for Fiction) 

AMONG FICTION WRITERS, THERE ARE two main groups: “plotters” and “pantsers.” Plotters like to create plots for their novels in advance. Pantsers like to fly by the seat of their pants, never knowing what comes next until it happens on the page. The way we work — me and Sean and me alone — is somewhere in the middle. I used to be a pure pantser, and today I blame it for my inability to finish a second novel. Conversely, as far as I’m concerned, our current use of story beats are the reason we’re both able to move so fast.

Story beats are kind of like an outline without being an outline. They’re sort of like CliffsNotes, written in advance, by someone who is barely paying attention. The reason I say that last is because story beats, for us, are merely a starting point. The beats are the plotting part of our mid-range writing style, but the story always, always grows beyond the beats, and that process is very “pantsing-like.”

The process looks like this:

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Happy writing and running, Kathy