Structuring Your Novel: Essential Keys for Writing an Outstanding Story (Helping Writers Become Authors Book 3)

· ASSIGNMENT: Identify the PLAN, CENTRAL ACTION, and CENTRAL QUESTION of your story. · What does the protagonist WANT? · How does s/he PLAN to do it? · What is the CENTRAL QUESTION of the story? And for extra credit: · What and who is standing in his or her way?

ASSIGNMENT: Take your list of top ten best endings of movies and books, and write down specifically, in detail, what it is about those endings that really does it for you. · ASSIGNMENT: What is your hero/ine’s greatest nightmare? How can you bring that to life in your final battle scene? · ASSIGNMENT: what is the Castle that your hero/ine must stor

· A defined protagonist · A powerful antagonist · A sense of the setting, conflict, and stakes · A sense of how the action will play out

Middle Trap the MC in a spiral of events outside of his control. Set the line of dominoes in motion. Force the MC’s original goal out of his reach. He can still see it and certainly still wants it, but he can’t reach it. Give the MC new goals. The MC’s primary goal shifts to the background as he struggles to stay afloat with all the complications c