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Plotting a Series Like Harry Potter Isn’t Magic. It’s Hard Work.
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Plotting a Series Like Harry Potter Isn’t Magic. It’s Hard Work.

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Monalisa Foster
May 21, 2025
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I got slapped down for answering a question about plotting a series like Harry Potter. No good deed goes unpunished.

I wouldn’t have bothered had I not recently done a run-through of the books and the movies, as well as a deep-dive into how Rowling outlined, but I was really excited about some of the things I learned in doing so.

Clue-bat, no one is goin…

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