BASIC WRITING ENGINE FOR ALL GENRES;
--Protagonist (HERO/HEROINE) is introduced at start of unfolding action with major want that must be satisfied through -major problem that must be overcome. WANT- VS -OBSTACLE = CONFLICT.
--Protagonist strives toward goal and other hurdles trip him up. MOUNTING TENSION AND SUSPENSE.
--Protagonist looks as if he/she is making headway when disaster(s) strikes. TIME SUSPENDED.
--Protagonist overcomes and makes headway only to find impossible problem. MAJOR WANT
COLLIDES WITH MAJOR PROBLEM.
--Protagonist overcomes impossible problem. Everything resolved in satisfactory climax.
--EVERY SCENE, CHAPTER and PARAGRAPH:
(1) Paint word pictures in brief descriptions.
(2) Use all six senses if possible.
(3) Wants/Obstacles = conflicts
(4) Tension and/or suspense
(5) Character and story development through Dialogue/BEATS/ Action
(6) Reader Identification with characters =Emotion through dialogue/Emotion through Internal Monologue (Internal thoughts re: greatest hope(s) /major fears/worries/doubts/anxieties)
(7) Need partial or full resolution of a particular problem/hurdle.
(8) Deepening of MAJOR PROBLEM at every turn.
--MAKING YOUR PROTAGONIST WORK WITH THE READER: READER IDENTIFICATION
If you’ve done your work in chapter one, or in the opening of your story, your lead character becomes one with the reader in the quest. FOR EXAMPLE = Your lead character wants to become the best runner in the world and the reader wants him/her to win whatever the cost. Take your lead character and your readers and put him/her and them at one end of a minefield and place the ‘you are the best runners in the world prize’ at the other end.
Your reader will collect a gold medal with your protagonist and they’ll be looking for your next story/book.
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(2) Use all six senses if possible.
(3) Wants/Obstacles = conflicts
(4) Tension and/or suspense
(5) Character and story development through Dialogue/BEATS/ Action
(6) Reader Identification with characters =Emotion through dialogue/Emotion through Internal Monologue (Internal thoughts re: greatest hope(s) /major fears/worries/doubts/anxieties)
(7) Need partial or full resolution of a particular problem/hurdle.
(8) Deepening of MAJOR PROBLEM at every turn.
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If you’ve done your work in chapter one, or in the opening of your story, your lead character becomes one with the reader in the quest. FOR EXAMPLE = Your lead character wants to become the best runner in the world and the reader wants him/her to win whatever the cost. Take your lead character and your readers and put him/her and them at one end of a minefield and place the ‘you are the best runners in the world prize’ at the other end.
Your reader will collect a gold medal with your protagonist and they’ll be looking for your next story/book.
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