How to Use Plottr for Children’s Book Authors
CJ Anaya
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In this session, you’ll discover:
Discover how Plottr, a tool that helps you outline, organize, and track your books and stories, can enhance your storytelling and productivity.
Bonus:
– Plottr Free Trial
Comment Below With Your Key Takeaways Or If You Have Questions About The Session.
Plottr is 100% new to me, so this presentation was exciting. CJ did a great job of hitting on all the key features in a short time. I do have a few questions:
1.Where does the author actually key in the text of the book; section by section along the timeline or is there a master document somewhere?
2.Where are the data and final manuscript saved? Is it done in such a way the author can access it anytime?
3. How does one share the data with an illustrator or publisher? Are the data converted to say, Word?
Hi Dorie, I’m not CJ, but I’m another CBMS presenter, and I use Plottr for my own writing and when doing developmental edits for my novelist clients. You don’t actually use Plottr to write your MS—it is entirely meant as a way to plan/plot your story, not to write with (as, in contrast, Scrivener is used as a way to write the MS).
(Just so you know, most editors work in Word, the industry standard for editing, so even if you do write in Scrivener or Google docs, most editors will request your MS as a Word doc.)
But you can save your Plottr file (with the timeline, the character details, etc) just as you would save a Word doc or PDF, etc, so that you can then send it to someone else to provide them with all your story information.
Hope this helps!
Thanks, Robin!
1.Where does the author actually key in the text of the book; section by section along the timeline or is there a master document somewhere?
If you are asking about “Where do I write my book” > Plottr is meant as a plotting tool. So each scene card is only a overview.
You can write in each one for each chapter, but you can export to Word or Scrivener and write your story into those programs.
2.Where are the data and final manuscript saved? Is it done in such a way the author can access it anytime?
If you get Plottr desktop (offline) > this is saved locally per device. (Hard drive, Dropbox, etc)
If you get Plottr Pro (online) > this is saved to Plottr’s Cloud storage. With an option to save backups to your computer, Dropbox.
3. How does one share the data with an illustrator or publisher? Are the data converted to say, Word?
You can export your work to Word or Scrivener documents.
Test out the free trial, and let us know if you have any other questions.
Sounds great.
Btw, where do we find the 10% discount code?
Thank you!
ok, no problem.
you mentioned a link to 2 videos where the story structure is analyzed – rapunzel and lethal weapon?
where is that located?
thank you!
That’s also a Premium Pass Bonus.
Hi Idelle. The 10% discount is for summit Premium Pass members. Sorry for the confusion.
Excellent information; however, the 60-day trial tab needs to be fixed. It’s not working.
Hi Elvira, not sure what you’re running into as it’s working for me. The link is https://plottr.com/free-trial. If you still have trouble, please contact Plottr support: https://plottr.com/support/
CJ covers Plottr (a tool that helps you outline, organize, and track your books and stories, enhancing your storytelling and productivity). It helped that she actually showed how you can navigate Plottr. It’s an online version of the storyboard, that helps you visually with your story and provides templates too. I like that it helps you write your story by providing plot lines, prompts me of story structure, which as a newbie I am unfamiliar with, provide brainstorm ideas, etc. Enjoyed her session and may consider acquiring it as it seems dead useful. Thank you!
Is there a way to incorporate story or character arcs using the software?
Thanks