if the Central Plot’s Inciting Incident

Set up and call to action Things go well, initial objective achieved Things start to go wrong as forces of antagonism gather strength Things go really badly wrong, precipitating crisis Crisis and climax. Final battle with antagonist. Matters resolve for good or ill.

Generally, a feature-length Archplot is designed around forty to sixty scenes that conspire into twelve to eighteen sequences that build into three or more acts that top one another continuously to the end of the line.

Generally, PLAN and CENTRAL STORY ACTION are really the same thing: the Central Action of the story is the carrying out of the specific Plan. And the CENTRAL QUESTION of the story can be summed up in general: “Will the Plan succeed?”