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f.How will you show your character’s personality?
g.What problems are you going to introduce? (List each problem and how character solves it)
h.How are you going to make things harder for your character?
i.What will happen in climax?
7.End of story
a.Will character achieve his goal?
b.How will he or won’t he achieve it?
c.What’s going to happen in end?
d.How are you going to end your story?
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Or if you prefer you can plot in scenes…
First, figure out how many scenes your story will contain. Then plot each scene.
Scene one
a)Setting
b)Introduce characters
c)Introduce conflict
d)Introduce goals
e)What will happen in first scene?
f)How will your first scene develop character and story?
Scene two
a)Introduce first problem
b)What does character feel about this? What does he think?
c)Have character solve problem
d)Begin making things harder for him
e)How will second scene develop character and story?
Scene three
a)Throw another obstacle in your character’s path
b)Have him solve it
c)How will third scene develop character and story?
Etc…
How you plot doesn’t matter. The most important thing is To plot.
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