I've been gushing about character transformation since the moment I first grasp the ultimate gift awaiting the protagonist and reader and the writer at the Climax based on lessons learned and conflict and tension endured.The antagonist's world in the middle is not simply to throw road blocks to knock the protagonist from her path to what she thinks she wants. A deeper and more lasting point of the conflict and challenges in the middle are the lessons, skills, abilities, knowledge, beliefs buried …
An Essential Element of Scene: Excitement (or Conflict, Tension, Suspense and/or Curiosity)
To engage your reader, especially in today's world filled with distractions, you must keep your story exciting. Excitement is created through dramatic action where a positive outcome for the protagonist is constantly threatened.Without gorgeous writing, exciting action and/or compelling characters (preferably all three), a reader's mind wanders. A reader with a wandering mind detaches from the story, puts down the book and later, if she does pick the story up again, she'll not recognize where …
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HoHum Story Concept? Energize through Thematic Significance
Last week's homework for our 16-week Plot from Beginning to End video chat workshop -- Chapter 14: Find Your Thematic Bubble in Plot Whisperer Workbook: Step-by-Step Exercises to Help You Create Compelling Stories -- came at the exact right time. With only a couple more sessions left and all the concept, plot and character elements plotted out on Plot Planners and Scene Trackers filling in for the 7 essential elements grounding the writers, this exercise seemed to allow the writers the clarity …
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15 Tips How-to Write a Novel with a Blockbuster Plot
BLOCKBUSTER Begin by knowing who protagonist is at the climaxLocate what your story says about life, the deeper meaning. For PB, the take-awayOpen with a character minus the skills, strengths & abilities needed at the climaxCommit to the primary plot of your storyKnow who carries the emotional weight of your story, the heartBreak your story into ¼ The Beginning, ½ The Middle, ¼ The EndUse the protagonist’s flaw to interfere with reaching her goalStart at the end and plot your way …
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Plot the Climax, Write the Climax, Re-Vision the Climax and Then Re-Write the Climax of Your Story
I love her confidence and energy and enthusiasm. She captures ideas and events and scenes from a vivid imagination, pins them into a beginning, middle and end, sets up a series of plot consultations with me, shares characters and goals and action until they shape themselves into a story with a plot ~ and what a plot she has!Last novel we did this way and she wrote from beginning to end is now in the hands of an agent who asked for the entire manuscript. Last novel took 4 two-hour sessions to …
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