Workshop Description:
Three. It’s a magic number.
Three is used as an element in fashion, in art, in interior design. It is used to present arguments to persuade others to act or respond or believe that a particular conclusion is valid.
But most importantly, it is used to tell stories.
You might have heard of the three-act system for story structure, but we’re going to break far more than a plot into three parts.
Break the Story into Threes does not require you to be a plotter. It does not require you to be an organic writer, a pantser. It might turn you into a combination of the two, a pantser. The goal is a comfortable template of your own where simple guidelines keep the story flowing once you key those first words on page one.
We’ll talk chapter setups, POVs, what some call “beats” but I consider percentage spots in the word count where something needs to occur. Character types, scene blocking, and more! It’s amazing the number of things that break into three elements!
Are you ready to venture forth into this forest of Threes?
Instructor’s BIO:
Beth Daniels’ career as a published writer of fiction, specifically a novelist, is over 30 years long now. She’s written under various pseudonyms for various traditional publishing houses and in a variety of genres and niches within those genres, spinning tales of romantic comedy (both adult and YA), romantic suspense (both contemporary and historical), cozy mystery, urban fantasy PI mystery comedy, and done so in both series setups and as single titles. Her 40th novel releases in 2025. But Beth also has taught Novel Writing as a college credit course, a continuing education one, and since 2010 as online workshops that get 5* reviews as often as her novels land those 5* reviews, which is very, very often. She’s won awards as both Beth Henderson (romance) and J.B. Dane (urban fantasy) and is one of the founders of a critique group in the small town where she currently lives. Visit her at www.4TaleTellers.com.