OctoPrep 2025

Plot: Raising Action

Assignment #22

"Oct. 22 - "Rising Action (How does the story get to the climax?):"

"Plot: Rising Action (How does the story get to the climax?)

"Review your notes from the ""Premise"" and ""Beginning"" plot exercises, and tweak the conflict(s) and inciting incident as needed before proceeding with the "Rising Action" plot exercise, as follows:

(1) Describe any initial refusals on the part of your protagonist(s) to face the conflict.
(2) Describe the moment when your protagonist(s) makes the choice to face the conflict.
(3) Describe the moment when your protagonist(s) crosses the point of no return and cannot change their mind.
(4) Fill in some of the blanks: How will your characters get from the point of no return to the climax?


(1) Dane, while told it would be something he'd be forced to do, he doesn't believe in the prophecy. It's hard for him to deal with the paraphysical, when everything he does is what he can see and feel. But regardless of what he feels, he promised his mother.

(2) I don't think Adelaide ever thought of not doing it. It became who she was, why she was. So when Lady Althena called for her and her mother to come, she never second guessed it. She had a duty to fulfill. Almost elated that it's time for all of the training to be put to good use. She also learns more of what is behind the prophecy.

(3) They're attacked by a group of small beasts in a thicket, they come to realize that Adelaide's friend and companion, Mihaela Roxana, had a part in it and is killed. It is this point where Adelaide (and Dane for that matter) realize that the prophecy is for real.

(4) It's from that point that they head to where they've been planning since the beginning, with a fervor they didn't have before. She learns about the River Passea and how she must pass since she isn't dead. It's such a big moment because it's the last big hurdle before she moves on to do what she had been training for. What her whole life had built up to.