16-Harvest

What reveals

Framework  - perceived context

Plan

Ideas

Style - how you write, your voice, your craft

Narrative

List

Conflict - direct opposition, consequence, or reaction

2-Elements

8-Framework   

15-Endgame

What directs

What moves

11-Influence

What happens

Helps reader understand context

Decide

  • What your story is about in a nutshell
  • Clear mission statement - your promise to your readers

What paths

Integral to story narrative "ride"

Plan

Feelings - emotion, choices, thought-life

1-Scene     Scene Structure - how scenes are interconnected

Dramatic turn

9-Segue   

  • Gather ideas into a cohesive plan

Subtle  powerful links to reader's subconsciousness

10-Empower

Events

Make

Real

Rewrite

Correction

5-Dramatize   

  • Propel the reader into a plot arc

Engine  Propel

Sketch - the writer's equivalent to an artist's preliminary drawing are bullet-point lists and brief descriptions; get your ideas on paper

Influence - why a person does what they do

Writing Steps - Actual Writing

Sketch

4-Exposition   

Crisis

Make

Substantial

What influences

Decide - make deliberate thoughtful choices

Thrust // Setback - narrative in terms of thrust and setback, like a sword fight

Know - acquire knowledge

7-Pacing   

Integral to story narrative "time"

Story Structure


Story Structure takes an in-depth look at the story elements and plot dynamics described herein.  

4-Emotion

Write - experience your story through direct person interactions, thoughts, actions, and setting

2-Time       Story Time - perceived passage of time

  • Think, dwell upon, meditate, reflect
  • Keep a journal or writer's log
  • Explain to yourself in your log to keep the consistency of the events and why things are happening clear to you
  • Correct, tighten, polish, clarify, revise
  • Fix grammar, spelling, word usage
  • Ensure consistency capitals and word hyphens

Scope - your story (concept, idea, imagery) must have sufficient focus, characters, interaction, and events to invoke dramatic conflict-laden tension

Muse

Reflect

What empowers

9-Pattern

Connect

Anticipation

  • Write the first draft in the overflow of preparation

Seedtime and Harvest - aspect of YHWH in earth

Sketch

Thoughts

A Story's Energy

External literary device

  • Everything works, everything has a purpose
  • Motivation and actions are credible (believable)
  • There is a sense of "rightness" about the story
  • What happens (plotlines, weaving)
  • Where the story happens (setting)

What escalates

Back Cover

Tease

12-Conflict

3-Events

Prep

Prepare

What occurs

Segue  - link to what happens next

5-Eternal

  • Reflect on feelings and motives

Arc

What connects

Empower - force (by a person's choice) that makes a profound influence

Building Blocks

Writing Stepping Stones - Before Writing

Know

  • Does it all work and does it all make sense?

7-Synopsis

How most people think writers write:

  • Get coffee or tea
  • Have pencils or pens handy
  • Place blank page in typewriter
  • Start typing  "Chapter One" and continue until "The End"

Events - what is happening (drama); what is going to happen (suspense)

  • Determine dimensions of your story-to-be
  • Determine the win-or-lose point that the entire narrative must join
Write what you know ~ Know what you write

Synopsis - summary text or bullet-point description of what happens

Structure - decide the narrative arcs and paths

Overview

Organize

Expand

Dramatize  - how dramatic narrative is evoked

See (Envision) - see people in a situation that involves conflict and potential change

What engages

13-Structure

3-Recurrence      Recurrence - patterns, echos, mirrors

Write

Capture

Capture - record distinct and vivid impressions, imagery, glimpses

Components of Story Structure

Endgame - what is the major win-or-lose conflict at the end of the story

Plan - determine with forethought a direction or scope

Story Arc

Contain

What ends

Role

God - how to relate to God through Jesus, faith, hope, love, grace, compassion, right with God

6-POV   

Dynamic - engine of story, motive, consequence

  • Describe narrative

Bigger Picture - what the story is "really saying" or "really about" in the human condition

Who is telling the story

Escalates tension and evokes feelings

Role

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Plot Dynamic

Arc - movement through space and time, like loosing an arrow

What says

Story Element

Exposition  - handle what the reader needs to know

Interaction - staging, rendering, what to focus on

What drives

Rewrite - fix mistakes, grammar, spelling, context, consistency, point-of-view; and, remove whatever detracts from your story thrust

What lasts

Write

Write

Foundation

Underneath

  • Make bullet-point lists
  • Distinct impressions and imagery
  • Write the first sentence
  • What is the dynamic of the story, what is the story really about
  • How the dynamic story engine manifests as problem, puzzle, suspense, mystery, wellsprings, or scarring

Overall

Scope

14-Thrust

See

Rewrite

6-Theme

What resonates

Dramatic pacing

  • Prepare layout

Scope

8-Style

Pacing  - how the story is paced, presented

Point of View  - from which character perspective the story is told

Pattern - subtle recurrence to strengthen story

1-Engine