The Tween Detectives - Oct. Prep Month

October 2nd, 2017 - The Beginning

Oct. 02: - Beginning ▼

(1) Describe your protagonist's life in the beginning ("Ordinary World" or "Stasis") of the story. Brainstorm ways you could establish normality through action and dialog to avoid boring your reader.
(2) Describe the inciting incident or trigger ("Call to Adventure") that prompts your protagonist(s) to embark on this story's journey (whether literal or metaphorical) and face the conflict. This incident could be large and obvious like a death or disaster, or it could be seemingly insignificant, such as an offhand comment by another character.


(1) Describe your protagonist's life in the beginning ("Ordinary World" or "Stasis") of the story. Brainstorm ways you could establish normality through action and dialog to avoid boring your reader.

When we first see The Tween Detectives, they are unmasking another phony ghost. This one was using a local ghost to cover up a counterfeiting operation. Only instead of counterfeiting US money, they were counterfeiting foreign money.

The unmasking is the action in the first Chapter. The dialogue that follows it as The Tween Detective explain what was going on, and how they solved it. There is also a little bit of action at the end of this first Chapter when they get their next mystery to solve aka the seven missing visitors.

(2) Describe the inciting incident or trigger ("Call to Adventure") that prompts your protagonist(s) to embark on this story's journey (whether literal or metaphorical) and face the conflict. This incident could be large and obvious like a death or disaster, or it could be seemingly insignificant, such as an offhand comment by another character.

It’s the missing visitors that trigger The Tween Detectives into wanting to solve this mystery. What happened to them? How are they disappearing without anyone seeing it? Why is it only visitors disappearing? That’s what The Tween Detectives want to know. And if anyone can solve this mystery, it’s them.