I read this in the creperie as I waited for my lunch to go. It was what I needed because I need 5000 words for my MFA fiction mentor TOMORROW and so far all I have written this week has been gah-baudge. I thought I introduced all the characters in act i BUT… introducing her father, a good, kind man, proud of her career, a loyalist to the same company that’s dicking her around (because nepotism) and he’s going to have thoughts! Thank you!
If you've read my first comment you know I need to FOCUS. We get brochures in the mail from cruise lines all the time and I never read them. Checked the mail and now I'm invested in "Discover the best of Europe"... #writingishard
Ah James, this was always going to be your time to shine. Red flags? Loads. Do we still hope he might be a good guy? Sure. Is he though? He gets to decide his own fate……
This might be the first prompt to which I know the answer. Might be time to bring in the character that I know is waiting. (This character may up being a protagonist in his own right, but we’ll see)
I was panicking until I saw the part about it being okay to write scenes out of order. Haven’t even opened the second act yet and I’m already fiddling around with the final chapter XD
Nice Guidance, the "who shows up" part. Actually, I was thinking of one of these characters as part of act one. There is a friend and mentor who turns on the main character right after my inciting incident. Because of this challenge, I realized that my inciting incident was too early in the book and therefore, wrote three new chapters to introduce the character's already challenging world, building up to the inciting incident.
This is incredibly insightful. My B story character entered late in Act One, but upends my protagonist's world by the beginning of Act Two. I will now act on this advice and compel my protagonist to face an impossible choice: A life of humiliation and subjugation, or a life on the run. Thank you for sharing this excellent article.
I read this in the creperie as I waited for my lunch to go. It was what I needed because I need 5000 words for my MFA fiction mentor TOMORROW and so far all I have written this week has been gah-baudge. I thought I introduced all the characters in act i BUT… introducing her father, a good, kind man, proud of her career, a loyalist to the same company that’s dicking her around (because nepotism) and he’s going to have thoughts! Thank you!
If you've read my first comment you know I need to FOCUS. We get brochures in the mail from cruise lines all the time and I never read them. Checked the mail and now I'm invested in "Discover the best of Europe"... #writingishard
1755 words. Mostly showing how alone my protagonist is, or feels himself to be.
Well, I think, at one point, Beckett... Monologue. Thomas Bernhard. Diane Williams.
Ah James, this was always going to be your time to shine. Red flags? Loads. Do we still hope he might be a good guy? Sure. Is he though? He gets to decide his own fate……
This might be the first prompt to which I know the answer. Might be time to bring in the character that I know is waiting. (This character may up being a protagonist in his own right, but we’ll see)
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I was panicking until I saw the part about it being okay to write scenes out of order. Haven’t even opened the second act yet and I’m already fiddling around with the final chapter XD
What an opportune question! I'm right around that scene.
The character that enters my protagonist’s life is actually that same character, but younger.
Nice Guidance, the "who shows up" part. Actually, I was thinking of one of these characters as part of act one. There is a friend and mentor who turns on the main character right after my inciting incident. Because of this challenge, I realized that my inciting incident was too early in the book and therefore, wrote three new chapters to introduce the character's already challenging world, building up to the inciting incident.
This is incredibly insightful. My B story character entered late in Act One, but upends my protagonist's world by the beginning of Act Two. I will now act on this advice and compel my protagonist to face an impossible choice: A life of humiliation and subjugation, or a life on the run. Thank you for sharing this excellent article.
Who shows up to challenge my protagonist: time