Story Keys are primary story elements that stir interest and excitement in the reader. These therefore should be included in your development of story, of course depending on genre, if you are a genre writer. Thus, if these keys do not fit exactly your writing style, then make a modified list that does fit your genre and writing style. The Writer's Interface here serves as a start-off example for you to modify, discarding what you don't need. We have included here many more ideas than you or any writer would put into a novel in order to show you a fairly complete survey of good writing techniques. You then select and add points. Your goal will be to make sure that when you do plan out your actual story that you dramatize these points in your story. It is not rigid. It is creative.

Your plot outline will probably be by events in a developmental list or sequence. We remember that a typical chapter has about three to five scenes. A scene is centered around one or at the most two major events. You see at the top of the page that there is a folder tab called Events. In the left column out of sight below are the titles of generic Events. A further screen shot will shot this.

This illustrate another aspect of planning your story-novel or play, or memoir. As you form the plot of your story you can go back and forth and all over the place. This is because you can always find where you are or need to be by checking out the titles of the outline tree at the left and going to various places until you know how you want various story elements to connect up. This quick checking and building strategy is great to keep everything interconnected.

Story Principle

There is a story principle that separates out the beginning or not fully committed writer from the advanced. Advanced writers never put in even one extra word, action or character that is not directly relevant to making the story move forward. Thus you need WriteItNow and The Writer's Interface to keep track of all your story elements and to build the whole.

The writing principle is: make every word and story element count in moving the story forward to an inevitable conclusion.

WriteItNow gives you the organizing power you need. The Writer's Interface gives you the story structures and techniques to choose from in building a novel, play or memoir.