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Ebook About When it comes to writing books, are you a “plotter” or a “pantser?” Is one method really better than the other?In this instructional ebook, author Libbie Hawker explains the benefits and technique of planning a story before you begin to write. She’ll show you how to develop a foolproof character arc and plot, how to pace any book for a can’t-put-down reading experience, and how to ensure that your stories are complete and satisfying without wasting time or words.Hawker’s outlining technique works no matter what genre you write, and no matter the age of your audience. If you want to improve your writing speed, increase your backlist, and ensure a quality book before you even write the first word, this is the how-to book for you.Take off your pants! It’s time to start outlining.This Revised Edition includes answers to the most popular questions regarding Libbie Hawker's outlining method.Book Take Off Your Pants!: Outline Your Books for Faster, Better Writing: Revised Edition Review :
There are a lot of things to love about Libbie Hawker's outlining process, and tons of insights to garner from this book!I first heard of the book on the Self-Publishing Podcast, where Libbie charmed me with her confidence and good-natured attitude. Then it showed up in the Also-Boughts of a book I wrote. I'm already a plotter, but currently working on bulking up my own outlining process and reading TONS of outlining/scriptwriting books, so I had to pick it up. I was not disappointed!Here are some of the insights I gained from this book:- How to put character arc first -My go-to bible for outlining is Story Engineering by Larry Brooks, but he admittedly focuses a lot on plot points. I was trying to figure out how to overlay character arc onto his 4-box story architecture and coming up short. Characterization has always been a struggle for me, so this isn't a huge surprise.Libbie's section on character arc helped connect a lot of the dots for me, and was well worth 10x the price of the book alone. Oddly enough, I have the book she mentions multiple times—The Anatomy of Story by John Truby—and was skim-reading it just before I read this book! BUT I did not pick out the character arc information I needed from that (maybe an argument against skim-reading?). Libbie's focus on character arc was exactly what I needed to make things "click." She explained her version of it simply and concisely. I now want to go back to John Truby's explanation and see if I understand it.- Antagonists and Allies -I had really never heard of an Ally before and this is a key insight that Libbie's book talks about in detail. They way she explains allies is *really* easy to understand. I immediately figured out several of my protagonist's allies in this outline I'm working on. Once you know your allies, a lot of scenes just before the resolution fall into place. Cool stuff!- The Character Flaw -Libbie's character arc revolves around one simple idea—that the character has a deep flaw that determines both the internal and external conflict for the entire book. She provides examples from Lolita and Charlotte's Web to drive this point home—and again, a lot of pieces clicked into place for me.In other books, the character flaw is talked about in vague or wishy-washy terms. It's "inner demons" or "internal conflict," which has historically shed very little insight on characterization for me. No more! I'm confident that my characterization will improve leaps and bounds just by understanding the character flaw and how it plays out in the character arc.- Theme as a filter -Most storytelling books relegate theme to the bottom of the heap, focusing primarily on plot or characterization. Libbie gives theme a prominent place and suggests using it as a filter for what makes it into your book. I again found this extremely helpful in the same way I found the character arc section helpful—I'm trying to map concepts of theme, character, and so on onto the 4-box story architecture. Libbie didn't go into a ton of detail about theme, but no bother—there are other books that explain it in detail. This one idea was easily worth the price of admission alone and again, connected several dots for me.- Plotting multi-protagonist books -Libbie's ideas about plotting for multiple protagonists reaffirmed a lot of what I already sensed but hadn't quite been able to put into practice. She provides easy-to-understand examples from her own work and confirmed that every character needs its own arc plotted. She also confirmed that sometimes your protagonists will be each other's antagonists—and that this is a good thing, helpful in unifying the book rather than telling stories in parallel. All in all, a fantastic discussion on multiple protagonists that most story craft books either completely skip over or only briefly mention.Overall, Libbie has a ton of great insight and lots of NEW ideas about outlining that make this book insanely valuable. That's why I gave it 5 stars.BUT, I would caution that the book belongs on the shelf and isn't a one-stop shop on craft. I say that because, while I think Libbie agrees that writers should read other books on the subject, she makes it really easy to understand and think, "yeah, I got a handle on all of this." She's like one of those fantastic professors in college who makes you feel so smart and makes the material so fun that you decide not to study too hard for the final. Then, you get a 77% and you're like, "What? I thought I understood this!"While Libbie's method is easy-to-understand, I still recommend attempting to map it onto the traditional three-act structure as homework. I did this last night (I used the 4-box structure provided in Story Engineering) and it was not nearly as easy or straightforward as I thought it would be. However, the exercise is a big reason for the connected dots I keep mentioning. There were so many freaking a-ha moments—I was basically in heaven when it all fell into place.In doing that, I also realized I had new questions that I need to explore on my own. For example:- Can an ally be a thing or idea, rather than a person? An antagonist can often be an antagonistic force instead of a person—the person is usually a symbol of the force. I believe the answer to the question is probable "yes."- Should the antagonist be introduced as late as Libbie suggests? Other architectures seem to introduce or at least mention the antagonist earlier. Libbie does point out that the antagonist can be a character who essentially becomes antagonistic at that specific point in the outline… however, I'm still a bit unsure of what would work for me, and need to keep digging for that connective tissue to my personal style.The second thing I recommend as homework is to dig into scene structure a bit more. Libbie has a section on pacing, and while easy to understand, I sense that many writers will benefit from the more formal study of scenes and sequels to see where these simpler explanations come from. I think Randy Ingermanson (the Snowflake Method) has several articles on this topic if you want to get your feet wet.So, I guess this is all my long-winded way of saying that I believe this book is fantastic for both beginners who find most story craft books a bit daunting and confusing (as I did when I first started and still do at times), AND writers with several books under their belts who are focusing on something specific to improve (like theme, or character arc, or pacing).BUT don't skip the fundamentals completely. Do the optional reading Libbie suggests to understand the theory behind many of her insightful conclusions. Some of the books I'm enjoying right now are Story Engineering, The Anatomy of a Story (Libbie's suggested book), and Story by Robert McKee. This text greatly enriches my understanding of these other meatier and more complex story craft books—but I wouldn't consider it a replacement. And based on Libbie's candor within the book, I don't think she intended it to be. Dr. C. J. Singh Wallia32 people found this review helpful5.0 out of 5 starsAn Excellent Intro to Creative Writing and to Truby's "The Anatomy of Story"Take Off Your Pants! Outline Your Books for Faster, Better WritingBy Libbie Hawker.Reviewed by C J Singh Wallia(Berkeley, California).At first glance the main title of this book and the cover illustration of panties is likely to be seen as an invitation to pornography. It’s not that at all. Its subtitle exhorts the readers to PLAN their creative-writing projects instead of writing off the seat of their pants. Don’t be a Pantser, become an outliner, a PLANNER. (The day I received this book, I started reading it while sitting in a bus going to UCBerkeley campus. Several students sitting near me noticed the book's provocative title and shot skeptical glances at me expressing, "what's this older guy reading in the bus?" Next day, I bought thick black paper to hide the blatant illustrations of panties on the cover and drafted this review, tentatively titled "Excellent 'Quickie' Intro to Truby's book.)Libbie Hawker introduces her book: "In this short book, I'll show you how to plan out a good story before you even begin to writing it, so that you can maximize your efficiency, increase your confidence in your own work, and be assured of delivering a quality product to your readers without wasting any time or embroiling yourself in anxiety over the particulars of your plot" (page 11).In the 156-page book, published in 2015, Libbie Hawker urges -- on pages 39, 61, 94, 124 -- to study John Truby’s “The Anatomy of Story,” the book that mentored her. As a creative-writing teacher, I recommend discussing Hawker’s short book, and doing its lucid, brief exercises as a complete guide. This can shorten the long journey to “Becoming a Master Storyteller” as claimed in the subtitle of Truby’s formidable 445-page book.On page 5 of his book, published in 2007, Truby writes, “In simplest terms, I’m going to lay out a practical poetics for storytellers that works whether you’re writing a screenplay, a novel, a play, a teleplay, or a short story. I will show that a great story is organic – not a machine but a living body that develops….” On page 14, “If most writers use an approach that is external, mechanical, piecemeal, and generic, the writing process we will work through might be described as internal, organic, interconnected, and original. I must warn you right up front: this process is not easy. But I believe that this approach, or some variant of it, is the only one that really works. And it can be learned.” The concluding paragraph of the book,“If you are a good reader -- and I have no doubt that you are – you are not the same person you were when you began this book. Now that you have read it once, let me suggest … well, you know what to do.”What to do? (Libbie Hawker’s book was not yet published.) I re-read Truby’s book, before taking on his nine story-structuring exercises for my work-in-progress. Mainly, I needed to better understand Truby’s complex analyses of novels like James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights,” and of sophisticated films like “Citizen Kane,” “Casablanca,” “The Verdict,” “Vertigo.” Doing the Truby exercises improved my self-editing skills and my short stories got published in literary magazines such as ZYZZYVA.Libbie Hawker writes: "I'll use the outline for one of my three main characters from TIDEWATER, [her literary novel about ‘Pocahontas of Powhatan tribe living in 1607’] to show you how to fill in the various parts of an outline, and how to bounce aspects of the outline off each other to develop the specifics of your story” (page 50). Here’s a sample of the reader-friendly tone of her book: “Please take my use of my own book in these outlining examples for what it is: honest communication of the way a specific outline came together, and not some sort of proclamation that my book is like totally the greatest book ever written, you guys!” (page 51). Smart choice to illustrate from one of her novels. Who knows the author’s intention better than the author? Her “Sketched-in Outline” (pp. 116-120) is a model of clarity. The 511-page "Tidewater" is an engrossing read besides complementing the nine exercises her book.Hawker presents many other readily accessible examples such as from: E. B. White’s “Charlotte’s Web,” L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird, Vladamir Nabokov’s “Lolita,” J. K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.”Taking on the question of theme, Hawker says: “In my opinion (please don’t come after me with pitchforks and torches if you disagree), ‘A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin is a superb work of literature. … I can sum up the theme of ASOIAF in one simple line: ‘Even good people will do terrible things in pursuit of power’”(page 75).The readers of Hawker’s book might find my detailed review of Truby’s “The Anatomy of Story” on amazon.com relevant, where it has received the highest positive votes, 386 to date: https://www.amazon.com/review/R29NU7U6LAHGBV----------- Read Online Take Off Your Pants!: Outline Your Books for Faster, Better Writing: Revised Edition Download Take Off Your Pants!: Outline Your Books for Faster, Better Writing: Revised Edition Take Off Your Pants!: Outline Your Books for Faster, Better Writing: Revised Edition PDF Take Off Your Pants!: Outline Your Books for Faster, Better Writing: Revised Edition Mobi Free Reading Take Off Your Pants!: Outline Your Books for Faster, Better Writing: Revised Edition Download Free Pdf Take Off Your Pants!: Outline Your Books for Faster, Better Writing: Revised Edition PDF Online Take Off Your Pants!: Outline Your Books for Faster, Better Writing: Revised Edition Mobi Online Take Off Your Pants!: Outline Your Books for Faster, Better Writing: Revised Edition Reading Online Take Off Your Pants!: Outline Your Books for Faster, Better Writing: Revised Edition Read Online Libbie Hawker Download Libbie Hawker Libbie Hawker PDF Libbie Hawker Mobi Free Reading Libbie Hawker Download Free Pdf Libbie Hawker PDF Online Libbie Hawker Mobi Online Libbie Hawker Reading Online Libbie HawkerDownload Mobi Upgrading Your Boat's Interior (Adlard Coles Manuals) By Mike Westin
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