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The Snowflake Method

Posted on 13 January 2006

(This post was transferred from my now-defunct “Unshelved Writing Goals” blog.)

I’m currently planning to use the Snowflake Method for this year’s novel-writing project. It’s a structure that lets you start with a sentence, enlarge it to a paragraph, expand that to a page, and then continue expanding each component until you have a rough draft. You go from general premise to specific scenes and specific writing. Seems plausible, anyway, and I’m very excited about the prospect.

Here are some related links for anyone else interested in investigating this:

Background: The Snowflake Method

(Unrelated) Character biography development sheets I found online at a screenwriting website; they’re useful for any sort of fictional writing

My template for the Snowflake Method — a set of Windows folders, text files, Word files, and an Excel character bio workbook I developed for my personal use after reading about the Snowflake Method and also reading the character development info at that screenwriting site. I place this zipped file here as an example of how you can personalize this fabulous novel organization method for your own use.

~ Carolyn B.

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1 Response to The Snowflake Method

Drops of Blood » Pantser or Plotter: What’s Your Novel Writing Style? says:

February 13, 2008 at 5:46 am

[...] and her vision. For me, it didn’t work completely, although it was a greater success than the Snowflake Method [...]

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