{"id":2780,"date":"2016-02-23T18:07:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T18:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Series-is-a-poorly-chosen-name-for-this-approach-since-it-already-has-a-commonly-used-meaning-a-number-of-books"},"modified":"2016-02-23T18:07:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T18:07:25","slug":"series-is-a-poorly-chosen-name-for-this-approach-since-it-already-has-a-commonly-used-meaning-a-number-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/02\/23\/series-is-a-poorly-chosen-name-for-this-approach-since-it-already-has-a-commonly-used-meaning-a-number-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Series&#8221; is a poorly chosen name for this approach (since it already has a commonly used meaning &#8211; a number of books&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>&#8220;Series&#8221; is a poorly chosen name for this approach (since it already has a commonly used meaning &#8211; a number of books connected by characters and events &#8211; and that is not what is being talked about here). What this author is calling a &#8220;series&#8221; could be referred to less confusingly as a plot strand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve used this technique, without having heard of it, and combined it with the Seven Point System popularised by Dan Wells (Google for it, he has a series of excellent videos on YouTube), so that each strand is developing in a logical way. A spreadsheet (or a big piece of paper, if you&#8217;re old-school) is all you need to use this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by Deborah Teramis Christian<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If, like me, you have ever struggled with plot in a book you&#8217;re writing, here&#8217;s a new(ish) paradigm for thinking of story-things that might be very useful. I&#8217;m intrigued by this approach and am going to give it a try with some WIPs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betternovelproject.com\/blog\/series-outline\/\">http:\/\/www.betternovelproject.com\/blog\/series-outline\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttp:\/\/www.betternovelproject.com\/blog\/series-outline<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        &#8220;Series&#8221; is a poorly chosen name for this approach (since it already has a commonly used meaning &#8211; a number of books&#8230;<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/02\/23\/series-is-a-poorly-chosen-name-for-this-approach-since-it-already-has-a-commonly-used-meaning-a-number-of-books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[68],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}