Plotting Pointers/Slice Magazine

Writer’s Thought for the Week: “…you’re a writer if you look at yourself and see a writer. Everyone else…sees an obsessive-compulsive, anal-retentive insomniac with a pen fetish.” ~ Lisa Shearin

PLOTTING POINTERS

Whether you’re a plotter or pantser, Robyn DeHart has an article with pointers to keep you on track when writing a character driven novel. After all, we must give some thought to what we are writing before we set pen to paper or fingers to keys. DeHart outlines three steps to plotting a character driven novel: theme, premise or character lesson, and character arc.

SLICE
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Slice will pay $100 for stories and essays and $50 for poems beginning with issue 12, which launches spring 2013. The theme for that issue is "Obsession." The reading period will run from July 1 - August 31. Slice welcomes submissions for short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Do not submit anything over 5,000 words.