We’re in Alpha and we’re dealing with plot. Plot is a series of events that makes up the narrative action of a story.
You may think “I need to write at least 80,000 to 90,000 words to qualify it as a novel. I know the story is that rich. But, I only know what to write for the first 10,000, or maybe 20,000 words, yet I still have to fill in at least 60,000 more words!” And that can be daunting…
Well, I’m not going to turn these posts into literary structure theory, but I’m going to give you some direction.
First of all, you need to know the number three rules. Everything obeys the rule of three. From the bird’s eye view knowing that the story itself has three acts to the detailed view that every scene has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end.
There are nine main pillars inside a story. If you know what they are and how to use them, you can simply go from pillar to pillar and the story will just flow to its conclusion. No more belly of the beast.
But would take dozens of posts to cover them all. So, we can stick to only three of them. Yes, I noticed—three again. Three of them, out of the main nine… Sounds like a prophecy.