Craft a more effective story by using your characters' emotional beats in your plot - in this video I'll show you how using examples from Harry Potter and Stranger Things.
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Emotional arc timeline examples
This video goes through:
- Recap and explanation of the three-act structure re-drawn as an emotional timeline: 00:50.0
- SPOILER ALERT: Examples of emotional timelines from:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Starts at: 01:35.0 -- Ends at: 03:35.0
Stranger Things Season 1 (Mike)
Starts at: 03:37.0 -- Ends at: 05:17.4
Stranger Things Season 1 (Nancy)
Starts at 05:17.6 -- Ends at: 06:26.0
Stranger Things Season 1 (Joyce)
Starts at 06:28.0 -- Ends at: 08:31.5
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About me:
Hi, I’m Elle. I help aspiring and struggling authors make it through the lonely and overwhelming process of writing a novel with my Ultimate Accountability and Support Programme. You can benefit from my 20 years of experience as a developmental editor. I have a wealth of strategies to share with you that will make your writing project come together much more easily than going it alone. I’m also a published author, so I’ve travelled both sides of this road. I know what your baby means to you, and I know when and how to give advice and when to give a project space to grown. I’ve made tons of mistakes over the years and learnt a lot of what I know the hard way – I want you to be able to take a shortcut and save yourself time and money so that your book can begin to work for you as soon as possible.
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Elle Carter Neal coaches aspiring authors through planning, writing, and revising through The Novel Approach courses and memberships. She is the author of the middle grade fantasy The Convoluted Key (first in the Draconian Rules series), the picture book I Own All the Blue, and teen science-fantasy novel Madison Lane and the Wand of Rasputin (first in the Grounded series). Elle is based in Melbourne, Australia. Find her at ElleCarterNeal.com.
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