Several of the steps in the Snowflake method ask you to define your characters and then to get to know them - really well. It forces you to really understand your own story. The Snowflake method asks you to define a one-sentence summary and then expand that to a Three-Act Structure. Many writers have a hard time explaining their story to agents or editors. (I’d like to thank my daughter Carolyn, who has a degree in English Literature, for helping me write these four example Snowflakes.) They’re all included in Snowflake Pro: I added in four examples of Snowflake analyses of popular books and movies. So I wrote a program, Snowflake Pro, to make the steps of working through the Snowflake method a joy - at least for me. I’ve got more than thirty years of experience writing software. The good news is that I’ve written software to make it simple and fun to work through the first nine steps of the Snowflake method (everything but step 10, writing the actual first draft–you can already do that in any word processor). That’s some serious thinking you need to do. The Snowflake method has ten steps that include a high-concept story idea, a Three-Act Structure, a detailed character analysis, a synopsis, a scene list, and more. The Snowflake method helps you organize your ideas, but it also makes you work. If it were, everybody would be writing great fiction. Let’s not fool ourselves that writing fiction is easy. The bad news is that the Snowflake method makes you work. The important point is that zillions of people around the world use the Snowflake method, including a number of published authors. That’s because different people are different, which is fine by me.
If you want to know what people say about the Snowflake method, Google “Snowflake method.”You’ll find that some people love it and some don’t. The Snowflake method is used by novelists all over the world. That has become the most popular page on my web site and has been viewed over six million times.
Years ago, I put my ideas together into an organizational tool I call the “Snowflake method”. That way, I was able to spend more of my writing time being creative and less of my writing time worrying about whether it was all going to fit together into a cohesive design. Why? Because one day I realized it was simpler to design my storylines and create my characters BEFORE I wrote my novels. But the later novels were a LOT easier than the earlier ones. Before those, I wrote a few that never got published. I’m Randy Ingermanson, known around the world as “the Snowflake Guy” in honor of my “Snowflake method” for designing and analyzing novels.
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