October Novel Prep Challenge

I'm Angelica Weatherby and I'm your writing coach today. So here is the assignment which I look at first:

Where is your story going? Describe the climax, the point at which everything changes and the tension of the primary conflict is finally resolved. Use the 'What If' brainstorming exercise to create a list of possibilities, remembering to consider the growth of / change in your main character(s) as a result of this event. The climax can be as hidden and seemingly tiny as that moment when your character finally makes that decision they've been dreading or avoiding for fifteen chapters, or it can be as huge and obvious as an exploding planet. Sometimes, the climax is a little hard to pin down. Was it the moment Ender won his game? Or was it the moment he realized the moving images on his screen were not a simulation, not the game he thought it was, and that he had just personally wiped out an entire alien race?

Now, the climax is closer to the end of the story. How do you want your story to be resolved? Is it a happy marriage for Romance or the criminal gets captured for Mystery? What do you imagine would be the end of the plot? This is one of the first few assignments I do to get a feel for how will the book be solved? In this case I came up with a daring situation for my protagonist. Getting blamed for something it didn't do. Yes, I imagine this will be resolved in the Climax. How about you? If the examples I gave just further confuse you then just note that it isn't the end of the book we're looking at here. But it's next to the end, this is the turning point for your protagonist to finish off at a strength unimagined.