What's Write [COMPLETED]

7 Plot Points

Plot Point 3: Point of Commitment (It's really called Point of No Return but I just end up thinking of Phantom of the Opera so I changed it) (Dude, same!)

This is where your character makes a choice that they can't turn back from. The decision that will put them on the path that they will take for the remainder of the story.

ASC example: the point of commitment for Lennon is when she signs the contract saying she will date Kade. There is no turning back after that.

Plot Point 4: Midpoint A (There are two parts to the midpoint, so I will have A and B)

This is one of the largest parts of your books. It's the middle section. The place where a million things happen. It's all the things that happen to lead up to the end of the book. The first midpoint is the lighter aspects of the book.

ASC example: Lennon touring. Her fight with Kade. Them making up and becoming friends. Their first date. Parties.

Plot Point 4: Midpoint B

Things shift up another notch. Actions become more serious and relationship become stronger or start falling apart. Something shifts to make the story hold more weight.

ASC example: Kade is drunk. Thanksgiving. Lennon being sick. Christmas. New Years. Mexico.

Plot Point 5: Big Gloom

Here is where your story starts to fall apart. Everything that could go wrong is going wrong. The worst possible situations are happening to your characters and it looks like things are never going to be better again.

(Oh God! Not Barry Allen crying! Anything but that! *bursts into tears because I'm a sympathetic crier and he's the best crier there is*)

(In this structure you can play around. Usually right after the Big Gloom comes the Climax/Conclusion, but in ASC it's spread out a bit more.)

ASC example: The Grammy's, Kade and Lennon fighting. The truth about...*cough* you know.

Plot Point 6: Climax/ Conclusion

This is where everything explodes and then resolves. Know this could be dragged out over a few chapters. A conclusion can come a lot later in the book than the climax, but its always the one and then the other.

(Like I said, in ASC it's fudged a bit)

ASC example: (The Climax) The news breaks. Kade takes Lennon away. They hide out. Lennon faces her emotions over the whole situation. (The Conclusion) She decides to share.

Plot Point 7: New Normal

Here the world is set right and you show us what that means. What does this new world after all that has happened look like. This is where you tie up loose ends and make us feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

ASC: Lennon and Kade are together. The adorable epilogue (It's that simple)

SO! What are you thinking?

I should really go re-read A Second Chance. It's been long enough, I think my heart can handle it.

(Can it though? Can it really? I mean it is Kannon after all!)

Did this help you start seeing your story differently?

I hope so! If you need things clarified, comment and I will make the necessary changes! I hope this helped shift things in your mind and putting those random ideas for a story into more solid formation!

If you got questions just comment and ask away!

Good luck and happy writing!