Comments on: Michael Crichton’s Method for Plotting Out a Story https://writershelpingwriters.net/2014/05/michael-crichtons-method-plotting-story/ Helping writers become bestselling authors Thu, 02 Sep 2021 16:18:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: ANGELA ACKERMAN https://writershelpingwriters.net/2014/05/michael-crichtons-method-plotting-story/#comment-726265 Thu, 02 Sep 2021 16:18:15 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=5878#comment-726265 In reply to Robin Matthews.

I know what you mean –some are flimsy. I would check Amazon reviews for Recipe Card packets as they will tell you which cards are thicker if thats’s what you want to use. If you’d rather have everything online, using a tool like Timelines at One Stop for Writers lets you move cards around digitally and the export the order when you are done so you can print it or just use it on your PC, in a software program, etc: https://onestopforwriters.com/about_timeline

You could also use a tool like Trello. https://trello.com/

Hope this helps!

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By: Robin Matthews https://writershelpingwriters.net/2014/05/michael-crichtons-method-plotting-story/#comment-726263 Thu, 02 Sep 2021 15:59:07 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=5878#comment-726263 In reply to Janet Hartman.

Which cards exactly do you use? Some of the index cards are quite flimsy, or does that not matter? Thanks

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By: Jn L https://writershelpingwriters.net/2014/05/michael-crichtons-method-plotting-story/#comment-708524 Tue, 16 Feb 2021 05:33:06 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=5878#comment-708524 Interesting. I remember reading that info in his autobiography some years ago before he died, but how did you come by it?

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By: Jimmy https://writershelpingwriters.net/2014/05/michael-crichtons-method-plotting-story/#comment-678792 Sat, 25 Jan 2020 00:04:47 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=5878#comment-678792 In reply to Robin.

Bravo, Robin! A man after my own heart.

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By: Robin https://writershelpingwriters.net/2014/05/michael-crichtons-method-plotting-story/#comment-678791 Sat, 25 Jan 2020 00:03:14 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=5878#comment-678791 As a novice writer, what I find utterly (apologies to all the pedants for the adverb!) exasperating, is that when people give advice in these ‘writing’ books, is, that they always need two hundred plus pages to do it?!

Haven’t these people ever heard of editing?! Or Will Strunk’s admonitions…omit needless words. Make every word tell. Apparently not!!!

Almost without exception, these ‘writing’ books could be reduced to less than thirty pages. Then we wouldn’t have to endure wading through all of the gruelling, tedious, claptrap to find out what the purpose of the book actually was.

Holy Crap!

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By: El Sistema de Fichas: Cómo Recordar, Organizar y Utilizar Todo lo que Lees | Estilados https://writershelpingwriters.net/2014/05/michael-crichtons-method-plotting-story/#comment-656802 Wed, 31 Jul 2019 18:30:09 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=5878#comment-656802 […] Michael Crichton, autor de clásicos como Parque Jurásico o Esfera, generaba la trama para sus novelas mediante fichas A7. […]

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By: ANGELA ACKERMAN https://writershelpingwriters.net/2014/05/michael-crichtons-method-plotting-story/#comment-597364 Wed, 04 Jul 2018 14:40:07 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=5878#comment-597364 In reply to claudia cv.

Personally what I found helpful was the book, Save the Cat. It helped me better understand the key moments in storytelling and figure out the order of events to create a well-structured story line.

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By: claudia cv https://writershelpingwriters.net/2014/05/michael-crichtons-method-plotting-story/#comment-597326 Wed, 04 Jul 2018 05:02:04 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=5878#comment-597326 I´m a big fan of index cards, so this method has worked wonderfully for me, thanks for posting. But, my biggest problem is stringing the ideas together–knowing what should come first, what second and so on. Any ideas?

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By: Note Card Plotting: Unwrapped | A.R. Beckert https://writershelpingwriters.net/2014/05/michael-crichtons-method-plotting-story/#comment-546840 Wed, 24 May 2017 15:30:35 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=5878#comment-546840 […] https://writershelpingwriters.net/2014/05/michael-crichtons-method-plotting-story/ […]

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By: 5 Plotting Methods for Your Novel https://writershelpingwriters.net/2014/05/michael-crichtons-method-plotting-story/#comment-414732 Thu, 04 Feb 2016 10:35:36 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=5878#comment-414732 […] a pantser. If you’re a planner, you can create your entire outline before you start writing, Michael Crichton-style. But if you’d prefer not to have an outline before you start, you can create one as you go. […]

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By: Note Card Plotting: Unwrapped | The Art of Stories https://writershelpingwriters.net/2014/05/michael-crichtons-method-plotting-story/#comment-410103 Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:03:50 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=5878#comment-410103 […] https://writershelpingwriters.net/2014/05/michael-crichtons-method-plotting-story/ […]

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By: Getting it Done May Mid-Grade Style | As the Eraser Burns https://writershelpingwriters.net/2014/05/michael-crichtons-method-plotting-story/#comment-323682 Wed, 20 May 2015 19:08:43 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=5878#comment-323682 […] index cards to develop his stories. Angela Ackerman detailed his method last year in the blog Writers Helping Writers. In a nutshell, while in medical school (talk about multi-tasking), he always kept a stack of index […]

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