CHARACTER SPECIFIC "You’re going to find your plot in your characters, more often than not. Don’t hesitate to let them lead the way."

• External change coupled with internal change
  • External: character's situation, life circumstances, role has changed; may be world events (consider how they in turn effect personal change)
  • Internal: beliefs, ideas, worldview, understanding, revelations, maturity,
• How you want the character to change vs how the character wants to change
  • What is the character lacking? What changes would better them?
  • YOUR goals for the character as their writer, their parental figure, the roller of the dice that determine their fate
  • How the character wants to grow as a person, what they'd like to change about themself
  • Ways that other characters would like this character to change, and how they feel about or would respond to those desires
• Character's external goals
  • How they want to change the world around them
  • What they want to accomplish, achieve
  • Place they want in the world and in their immediate environment
• Okay now how can they enact those changes, or how would they go about trying
  • How changes in the setting can accommodate this (and how they can complicate it)

HIGH-LEVEL

• Are there certain changes that occur in most/all of the main characters? (e.g. the cast learns how to survive in a post-apocalypse, the cast develops more trust in themselves, the cast becomes more aware of the impossible)
• developing the plot in 9 sections

http://www.everydayfiction.com/flashfictionblog/the-quick-and-easy-cheaters-guide-to-writing-storylines/

• 1. The setup
• 2. Something that interferes with or alters 1
• 3. Where the main point of the story gets going; combine elements of 1 and 2; perhaps directly provoked by 2
• 4. "powerful reversal of 1"
• 5. Major pivot. Re-establish story so far, reversal of 2 and 4. Introduce a new obstacle or reveal a hidden one. Protagonist solidifies their reserve. Reminder of what's at stake.
• 6. Major change or loss by reversing part of 3 and combining 4 and 5.
• 7. Beginning of climax. Combine elements of 1 and 4 to get a point where all SEEMS to be going well, e.g. by a revelation. A major obstacle seems to be thwarted. Arriving at an intended destination.
• 8. Reverse 7, suddenly it's all going wrong. Reveal anything still hidden. Bring together all that's gone before. Perhaps introduce an unforeseen Bigger Bad.
• 9. Resolution.

LINKS

advice ?

• http://clutchingdustandstars.com/blog/how-to-write-a-novel-when-you-have-no-plot
• http://whataboutwriting.tumblr.com/post/57007986025/i-have-characters-and-world-but-no-plot
• http://reidwrite.livejournal.com/4676.html
• http://www.everydayfiction.com/flashfictionblog/tag/list-of-common-plots/

lists/ideas ?

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirty-Six_Dramatic_Situations
• http://www.thewritersjourney.com/hero%27s_journey.htm (fun life exercise: see how this fits Jason/The Heresy)
• http://www.ipl.org/div/farq/plotFARQ.html
• http://changingminds.org/disciplines/storytelling/plots/tobias_plots.htm