Comments on: Beat Sheets: For Plotters, Pantsers, and Technophobes

By: abbyjreed

abbyjreed — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:49:18 +0000

Reblogged this on Abby J Reed and commented: Great tool for any writer! Maybe it'll work for you :)

By: Jami Gold

Jami Gold — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:27:13 +0000

In reply to Robyn LaRue (@theWritingHabit). Don't worry, they're all on my site because I do a post with each one to explain how to use it. :) Exactly! I'm glad to see other pantsers backing me up on this. LOL! I don't use beat sheets to come up with specifics most of the time. They just help me figure out what I want to accomplish with each beat ("Do something to make her lose trust here"). :)

By: Robyn LaRue (@theWritingHabit)

Robyn LaRue (@theWritingHabit) — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 03:20:02 +0000

OH, I think there's one here not on your site. Downloading. 🙂 As a panster I was resistant to using them until I wrote a short story with a beat sheet. Eyes now opened, so glad to see you wrote here, also. 🙂

By: Jami Gold

Jami Gold — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 20:27:25 +0000

In reply to Julie Musil (@juliemusil). I love helping authors with beat sheets and story structure, so let me know if you have any questions! :)

By: Julie Musil (@juliemusil)

Julie Musil (@juliemusil) — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:18:32 +0000

Wow, Jami, so much great information here! I've never used an actual beat sheet. I've used James Scott Bell's advice about doorways and story structure. I think I'll try this for my next book. Thanks!

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Beat Sheets: For Plotters, Pantsers, and Techno... — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 04:19:47 +0000

[…] by Jami Gold If you’ve heard of beat sheets before, you might have heard about complicated forms or spreadsheets. I don’t know about you, but I don’t do math. Heck, I write my stories by the seat o... […]

By: Jami Gold

Jami Gold — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:02:03 +0000

In reply to Alisha Rohde. Hi Alisha, Yes, I'm a big picture/visual person myself. :) Let me know if you have any questions!

By: Alisha Rohde

Alisha Rohde — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 18:51:36 +0000

Wonderful post, thank you! I was familiar with the concept of beats from my theatre studies way back when, and I knew there were books out there getting into the nitty gritty, but being a big-picture person (and yes, visual) I really wanted a nice overview. This was just the right amount of detail and summary for my brain--and I'm off to check out the spreadsheets now. 🙂

By: Jami Gold

Jami Gold — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 17:20:38 +0000

In reply to deenaremiel. LOL! Yep, I do the least amount of planning necessary to get the words on the page. :) My "Lost Your Pants?" class goes much deeper into that approach too.

By: deenaremiel

deenaremiel — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:31:58 +0000

Thank you so much for this golden nugget of a resource, Jami! I just downloaded your Beat Sheet and subscribed to your website. I'm a panster, mostly, and I can tell your approach doesn't cause my brain to seize up. Yay! 😀