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PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE THIS PAGE WILL REMAIN ACTIVE FOR PURPOSES OF EDUCATION AND RECORDS, IT IS OUTDATED. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE NEWEST VERSION. 8 Steps to Writing Your Story's Epilogue Anybody Can Write a Novel   Chapter 4 “Plot Points” – Section 11 “The Epilogue With Links to Supplementary Material This is the final plot-point of your story, after the conclusion in your Climax. This is a sad and yet proud moment for me... like seeing you all graduate *wipes tear from the corner of my eye. But then again, we still have quite a few more chapters on various topics before we're finished. Feel free to visit the Gu

PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE THIS PAGE WILL REMAIN ACTIVE FOR PURPOSES OF EDUCATION AND RECORDS, IT IS OUTDATED. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE NEWEST VERSION. 6 Steps to Writing Your Story's Climax Anybody Can Write a Novel Chapter 4 “Plot Points” – Section 9 “The Stand Up” With Links to Supplementary Material You've finally made it to the end of the story! Well... almost. But you have arrived at your story's final battle, the main confrontation, the showdown—the Climax. This is the point at which your plot comes to a close, and where your hero will either triumph or be destroyed by the Antagonistic Forces set

PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE THIS PAGE WILL REMAIN ACTIVE FOR PURPOSES OF EDUCATION AND RECORDS, IT IS OUTDATED. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE NEWEST VERSION. 5 Steps to Writing Your Story's Stand Up Anybody Can Write a Novel   Chapter 4 “Plot Points” – Section 9 “The Stand Up” With Links to Supplementary Material Within the past few plot-points of Act II, and ever since the Disaster, the mood of your story should have been a constant downhill spiral that finally slowed to a stop in the Second Turning Point, as your protagonist finally determined how to resolve their problem. Now, we finally get to the point where it i

PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE THIS PAGE WILL REMAIN ACTIVE FOR PURPOSES OF EDUCATION AND RECORDS, IT IS OUTDATED. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE NEWEST VERSION. 5 Steps to Writing Your Second Turning Point Anybody Can Write a Novel   Chapter 4 “Plot Points” – Section 8 “The Second Turning Point” With Links to Supplementary Material In the last article, on the Second Pinch Point, I compared the Disaster to having been put into a literal pit, and the Second Pinch Point as the protagonist's realization that the antagonistic force has begun to shovel dirt into the pit with the intention of burying your hero alive. For a seco

PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE THIS PAGE WILL REMAIN ACTIVE FOR PURPOSES OF EDUCATION AND RECORDS, IT IS OUTDATED. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE NEWEST VERSION. 6 Steps to Writing Your Second Pinch Point Anybody Can Write a Novel   Chapter 4 “Plot Points” – Section 8 “The Second Pinch Point” With Links to Supplementary Material After your protagonist has encountered the Disaster plot-point, during which he/she nearly lost everything they had fought so hard for, there needs to be an event which shakes them out of their emotional turmoil just enough so that they feel they must continue the fight. This event is called the S

PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE THIS PAGE WILL REMAIN ACTIVE FOR PURPOSES OF EDUCATION AND RECORDS, IT IS OUTDATED. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE NEWEST VERSION. 5 Steps to Writing Your Story's Disaster Anybody Can Write a Novel   Chapter 4 “Plot Points” – Section 7 “The Disaster” With Links to Supplementary Material After your Midpoint (where the Antagonistic Force confronted your Protagonist and won), your Protagonist will have an emotional spiral into turmoil and dire consequences for everyone who had stakes in your protagonist's victory. Not only that, but your Protagonist will feel and take this failure more than any

----- Original Message ----- How do you develop an idea? How do you come up with the details behind stories? Do you get them from reading books? Do you get them from modern concepts? Or do they just come to you (if so, lucky you XD)? How do you develop the world in which it takes place? People or settings first? Do you include cults/religions/mass groups? How do you come up with these groups? -- Thoughtful Writer In other words, what you want to know is: How do you build a Story from an Idea? Let's begin by breaking this huge pile of questions down to smaller, bite-sized pieces... How do you develop an idea? I start with a Climactic Event

-----Original Message ----- Characters have to have flaws, but sometimes it's a bit hard to add those flaws in.     -- Concerned About Characters First of all... What is a character Flaw? A character's Flaw is a crack in their personality and/or talent. Something that both helps them AND harms them. Kind of the way true artists (and brilliant nerds) tend to also be serious flakes, and really socially awkward. This is actually because they spend so much time perfecting their talents that they simply aren't around people enough to correct their social skills. 'K? Now then... Where do you Put a Character's Flaws? A character's greatest stren

PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE THIS PAGE WILL REMAIN ACTIVE FOR PURPOSES OF EDUCATION AND RECORDS, IT IS OUTDATED. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE NEWEST VERSION. 5 Steps to Writing Your Story's Midpoint Anybody Can Write a Novel   Chapter 4 “Plot Points” – Section 6 “The Midpoint” With Links to Supplementary Material If the First Pinch Point was the rise of a metaphorical hammer over the skull of your protagonist, then the Midpoint is when it comes crashing down—knocking your hero senseless. The Midpoint is the climax of Act II, where the protagonist reacts to the First Pinch Point's imminent threat or challenge tha

PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE THIS PAGE WILL REMAIN ACTIVE FOR PURPOSES OF EDUCATION AND RECORDS, IT IS OUTDATED. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE NEWEST VERSION. 6 Steps to Writing Your Story's Rising Action Anybody Can Write a Novel   Chapter 4 “Plot Points” – Section 4 “The Rising Action” With Links to Supplementary Material Welcome to Act II of your story, where we are going to start by discussing Rising Action. Rising Action is a series of events or chapters that occur after your protagonist realizes how they are going to resolve their problem in the First Turning Point. For me, this is often the most fun, lighthearte