Proverbs 16:9 "A
man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps."
Writers are the ones who
give direction to our stories. We want the tale’s events to follow logically
from one point to the next.
What happens in the first
scene should cause what happens in the second scene, and so on. To help us come
up with ideas for the plot, it helps to know the stages most stories follow.
The story starts with
showing the characters’ normal world, but in the middle of dealing with a problem typical of
their normal world. From there, the story requires an occurrence that rocks the
protagonist’s normal world, the steps the hero takes to get things back to
normal, the incident that proves the hero’s world will never be normal again,
the steps the protagonist takes to create order out of this new chaos of a
life, the moment the hero is ready to give up, the big battle with whatever is
keeping the protagonist from reaching the goal, and the resolution that ties up
loose ends and shows the protagonist in the new normal life.
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