The desire created by the opportunity is not the specific goal that defines your story concept, but rather a desire to move into stage 2įor the next 15% of the story, your hero will react to the new situation that resulted from the opportunity. Ten percent of the way in, your hero must be presented with an opportunity which will create a new visible desire and will start the character on her journey. The opening 10% of your story must draw the reader into the story setting, reveal the everyday life your hero has been living, and establish identification with your hero by making her sympathetic, threatened, likable, funny and/or powerful. But moving on to the meat of this post … The Six Stages of Plot Structure This is the work in progress for the timeline for Dispossessed.Īnd here’s Mani Moon sitting on the finished template for The Magan Illusionist, a story I laid out several years ago but haven’t actually written – apart from the first few pages, which happen to be great, so maybe I will complete it one day. I use the 6 points of story structure by Michael Hauge and, using sticky notes for the events, I make changes in the order of events or the time given to some events so that the major changes, challenges and opportunities fall at the best place. A template makes sure that your plot points come at the right time to keep the reader interested. This post on plot structure continues from the one on Writing a Novel: the First and Second Draft where one of the points to check at the 2nd draft stage was how your plot points sat relative to a plot structure template.
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