FSN - Day 18 - First Plot Point/Point of No Return

[ladyseishou]

Day 18 - 13 days until the start of NNWM




This week we’re going to fashion a kind of very loose framework for our story Nano Writer - a guide that will lead our protagonist from the beginning built around our character’s background we worked on last week through to the ending we envisioned yesterday, all while pursuing his or her heart’s desire.

Got all that? Well, don’t worry. We’ll work on putting all the pieces together at the end of the week. For today, we’re going to spend fifteen minutes and make a list of things or events that will convince our hero of the necessity of leaving behind the comfort and safety of “home” to begin “the quest.” What will it take to persuade your character? True love? Gold? Survival?

Questions? Comments? Motivation? You’ve got the moves, Nano Writer! Let’s hear what you got! Keep writing!

Comments

[lap_otter]

I guess the first thing that happens to Garth that starts his world changing is moving halfway across the country, from Texas to Oregon. But that happens before the story starts. The second thing is probably meeting Adison in art class; Garth is asexual and cisgendered, and Adison is queer and--well, she's queer, is what she is; as she'd say, "I'm not a chick and I'm not a dude; I'm an Adison and that's what I like to be." Biologically she's female. They're such polar opposites to each other, they become best friends and she makes him join the GSA at their high school, which she founded. From there, there's bullying, the school administration trying to stop the bullying by shutting down the GSA, Garth's pregnant ex-girlfriend, Adison getting expelled, and--"WHAT, are you telling me you can do MAGIC, too? Could my life get just a LITTLE bit harder, please?!"

I uh haven't been commenting; a lot of these exercises so far have had little to no tangible result until last Friday, when I cracked down on five or six I'd been behind on and ended up with a rough outline that ties up all loose ends. Each day's tiny, insignificant amount of progress just all suddenly came together into, OH, I have a STORY.

[ladyseishou]

It's like magic, isn't it when the story just sort of appears like that? Very happy for you!