Here's another link with useful video and printable worksheets about the 3-9-27 structuring method:
On the flipside, one tool to really boost the brainstorming and creative side of plotting is a book called The Ten-Day Outline, by Lewis Jorstad.
https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Day-Outline-Planning-Novelist-ebook/dp/B07T3H9R55
He really respects the need for fun, sensory inspiration, and randomness, and has patience for writers that really struggle to summarize (like me).
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I haven't really tried the Snowflake Method (which the article author invented) because I don't usually start with a premise that can be fractally grown, so much as an already-hatched goblin of a vague world and MC.
But I have used the Method to organize and expand on whatever ideas I had already surfaced for several stories, including my main scifi project.
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