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Narrative Structure & the Plot Scheme: Understanding and Using the Plot Scheme

A short guide to the Plot Scheme I use as a Developmental Editor and the three theories about narrative structure this scheme is based on.

I created the Plot Scheme using the yEd Graph Editor by yWorks.

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A Fantasy Developmental Editing Project

Since October 2017 I've been working as a freelance editor and ghostwriter in Italian and English, with a focus on Developmental Editing for fiction writing. Between January and February 2019 I was hired to perform some in-depth editing of the outline of a fantasy novel. An additional coaching hour allowed me and the author to better understand the novel’s strong and weak points, especially in terms of the main protagonists’ Character Arcs.  My editing average for this project was 831 words/hour.

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A Coming of Age Developmental Editing Project

Since October 2017 I've been working as a freelance editor and ghostwriter in Italian and English, with a focus on Developmental Editing for fiction writing. 

In December 2018 I was hired to perform a step-by-step deconstruction and analysis of the main plot and secondary storylines of a coming of age novel with an exotic setting. Special attention is also being devoted to revising the different narrating styles and dialogue choices of the main point-of-view characters.   This project is currently in progress and my editing average is currently 1286 words/hour.

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A Bizarro Developmental Editing Project

Since October 2017 I've been working as a freelance editor and ghostwriter in Italian and English, with a focus on Developmental Editing for fiction writing. Between June and September 2018 I was hired to revise the different narrating styles and dialogue choices of the main point-of-view characters for a bizarro-pulp novel. My editing average for this project was 937 words/hour.

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Blade Runner 2049: Do Androids Dream of Narrative Problems? | Miscellaneous

Deckard's existential anguish is only effective within the narrative premises of the original Blade Runner. When Hollywood tasks a team of screenwriters with reviving a conflict that cannot be rationalized, problems ensue...

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My Pinch of Italy is a food blog aimed at UK residents with a passion for Italian cuisine. The owner of the website hired me in June 2018 to perform a complete rebranding of the website, to review the core concept of the project and the brand’s tone of voice, and to create a new content plan. This collaboration is currently ongoing; I am in charge of editing and proofreading the articles, and copywriting and scheduling the website’s social media presence.

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I was asked to edit and proofread the four short stories presented for the editorial project #foroNOBUDGET

 The fourth and last issue, WINTER, was published in April 2018.

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Editing the Prologue of Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" | Not Like This

A word by word demonstration of Dan Brown's bad writing.

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I was asked to edit and proofread the four short stories presented for the editorial project #foroNOBUDGET 

The third issue, AUTUMN, was published in October 2017.

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Why Characters Can't Be Stupid: Relevance Theory and Creative Writing

Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory explains why characters can't make stupid choices. Realism is not always engaging.

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I was asked to edit and proofread the four short stories presented for the editorial project #foroNOBUDGET 

The second issue, SUMMER, was published in July 2017.

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Master's Thesis - University of Milan

This experimental paper advocates the use of some tools of Cognitive Pragmatics for writing fictional dialogue. 

I graduated in April 2017 with 110/110 cum laude.     

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I was asked to edit and proofread the four short stories presented for the editorial project #foroNOBUDGET 

The first issue, SPRING, was published in April 2017.

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The last article for my column Stream of ConsciousSex.

STREAM! was an online non profit magazine about feminism, equality and empowerment.

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The literary magazine inutile asked me for some reviews to publish on their blog, on medium.

I chose Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. 

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More creative nonfiction on Medium. 

It was the fifth anniversary of my mother’s death; I wrote about how imperfect and (therefore) awesome she was.

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A long due farewell on the fifth anniversary of my mother’s death.

This story became so popular that Medium Italia asked me to move it on their publication. The article reached so far  4.2K people.