People usually want to hear how they can write the next million-dollar book everybody wants to buy. If it was that easy, there will be more author millionaires at this time. So let’s get to basic. Dominate writing, do a killer story, and work to get to your million dollar goal after you write the words “THE END” in your manuscript.
When you want to write a story in order to make sense you have to create a plot. The plot is a series of events that will make up for what you are writing about. There is no one rule set in stone on how to write your story. You’ll need to follow more or less the same concepts. There are various plot structures that will be displayed in this post.
In a previous post, you get to see what you need to write your book. On the plot, we’ll learn a bit of that as well. Usually, the first thing you do it’s an exposition.
On the exposition, you introduce your characters, the world, the main conflict, and any other information so you can show the path or the journey to where the reader will travel. You continue building up information, tension as a rising action so, later on, you can get to the climax. After the climax, the action starts to decline until the end and resolution.
Like I said earlier there is no rule set in stone on how to write your plot. You don’t need to go on a specific you need to do your exposition in 10 pages, 100, midpoint another “X” pages, and the resolution in another “X” pages. What you need to know is that there are guides for you to complete your story. If you stress on how many pages you need for each part, that’s all you’ll do. Just write, do your build-up for the rising action and blow the audience’s mind by giving them an awesome climax.
What you need to do is knit your story using all the elements. Move them in accordance with what the story needs and how can it get better. You may be a writer that likes to sit down and just write. No wrong with that. But if you need to structure your story it would help a lot so you know nothing is missing. Creating a plot is not easy, it takes practice to master.
So in case, you need more examples of the structure you can do this:
Create the setting:
- characters
- world
- time
- rules
- inciting conflict
Rising action:
- point of no return
- subplots
- obstacles
- tools to overcome adversities
- challenges
- change in some characters
Climax:
- Create a WOW effect
- Final battle
- First kiss
- The point where the audience won’t be able to stop reading
Falling action:
- The main conflict is resolved
- Antagonist is defeated
End:
- Resolution
- Final payoffs of the characters
Any other questions or suggestions be sure to write comments below.