Wandita

Tuesday, October the ninth - - Plot: Rising Action

Oct. 09: - Plot: Rising Action (How does the story get there?) ▼

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.
At first, Wandita doesn’t think that this is her kind of problem to solve. She soon realizes it is her kind of problem after all.
(2) Describe the moment when your protagonist(s) makes the choice to face the conflict.
Ever since Wandita is asked to check out the possible problem to solve she can’t stop thinking about it. She decides to do it even before she finds out that there is a personal reason why she’s going to do it.
(3) Describe the moment when your protagonist(s) crosses the point of no return and cannot change their mind.
It’s when she finally makes the Infiltrators tell her why they have been trying to kill her on every planet that she has been to so far. Of course, she doesn’t know them as Infiltrators until then. She just knows they have been trying to kill her, and she wants to know why.
(4) Fill in some of the blanks: How will your characters get from the point of no return to the climax?
When she finds out about the Infiltrators she is determined to kill all of them before she gets to her final destination: what she has been sent to check out. She figures it’s best to get rid of them all first. After all, she doesn’t know what she’s going to encounter at her final destination.