Jessica Strong

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.
Jessica didn’t really refuse anything, but Chapter Five is the first conflict that she gets involved in. Up until then she is only getting ready for that chapter.
(2) Describe the moment when your protagonist(s) makes the choice to face the conflict.
Even Chapter Five isn’t the moment Jessica gets involved with the conflict that’s coming her way. There isn’t really a specific Conflict Start for this novel. The whole novel is one conflict after another. Almost every chapter has some conflict in it.
(3) Describe the moment when your protagonist(s) crosses the point of no return and cannot change their mind.
It starts after the death of her dad. Only we don’t know what Jessica is up to until toward the end of this novel.
(4) Fill in some of the blanks: How will your characters get from the point of no return to the climax?
Jessica has a plan to revenge the death of her dad, and her mom. That plan might be obvious to some, if not most or all, of the novel readers, but is it? You never know with me.

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