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We’re halfway through NaNoWriMo, so the spirits are quite high as you’re rapidly fleshing out the story you worked so hard to craft. But in being ambitious, one often finds themselves on tangential paths, elaborating on things that may seem too much upon review.
We’re not saying that all have all the elements down in one go. In fact, that’s what NaNo is for: to ‘get it all out’, so to speak. Plus, there’s always editing.
What we’re doing here is to simply make sure that you have your priorities in place, and the tools that will help you expand on the themes and characters you are writing about.
What do you need to have in place?
Regardless of genre, every story has some key elements that need to be incorporated for it to work as a story. German playwright summarizes it best, in his Freytag’s pyramid, which has six crucial points.
- Exposition: This is when your characters and their contexts are introduced to the reader.
- Inciting moment: This is where the main conflict of the story is introduced. What are your characters’ (especially your protagonist) goals and how do they intend to go about achieving them?
- Rising action: This is where the protagonist actually works on achieving their goals. This…
