All right. Weโre discussing ways to fuel the muse before NaNo. Yesterday, we discussed movies and how to use them, and today weโll delve a tad further.ย One of the major reasons many writers fail to complete the story is there isnโt a single CORE story problem in need of resolution.ย The story dies because it lacks a beating heart and a skeleton.
Stories with no hearts and skeletons are primordial adverb ooze and not good for much other than scaring small children.
A great trick NYTBSA (and spectacular writing teacher) Bob Mayer taught me was to go to the IMDB and look up log-lines of movies. Search for ones similar to the story you want to write and use it as a template.
For instance, the log-line forย Romancing the Stoneย is:
A romance writer sets off to Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herselfโฆ
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