Choose Your Theme
The theme will help you pinpoint :
- what you want to tell your readers
- which direction your novel needs to go
- what the problem is
- the steps you need to take to prove your thesis (the thesis is the theme)
For more details about the theme, read under the folder "Plot"
- what you want to tell your readers
- which direction your novel needs to go
- what the problem is
- the steps you need to take to prove your thesis (the thesis is the theme)
For more details about the theme, read under the folder "Plot"
Choose your Story Arc
The story arc includes the major plot points of your story:
1) What is the MC (Main Character)'s problem?
2) What are the three major events that will change the MC's life?
3) What is the climax?
1) What is the MC (Main Character)'s problem?
2) What are the three major events that will change the MC's life?
3) What is the climax?
- EXAMPLE:
- In the story The Borrowers by Mary Norton, the major plot points are:
- 1) PROBLEM: Ariety is a bored teenager who has been confined in a mouse hole all her life. She wants some adventure. She also wants to go to the garden to discover the world and she also wants to meet new people besides her parents in order to relieve her loneliness.
- 2) FIRST LIFE CHANGING EVENT: Ariety meets a human boy.
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- SECOND LIFE CHANGING EVENT: Adults in the house find out about the borrowers
- THIRD LIFE CHANGING EVENT: The borrowers need to leave their home.
- 3) CLIMAX: Adults in the house want to call the police on the borrowers. They call the rat trapper to capture them. The boy is sent away and is unable to help them.
Plot Points
The plot includes:
1) tension
2) character development
3) conflict
4) goal
5) the emotional path (character arc)
1) tension
2) character development
3) conflict
4) goal
5) the emotional path (character arc)