Plot: Rising Action

Rising Action

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.

At first, Lewis feels guilty that he was emotionally unavailable, so inattentive to his family. He blames himself for her death, convinced it was one of his enemies who had killed her.

(2) Describe the moment when your protagonist(s) makes the choice to face the conflict.

Eliza visits him in prison since he won't return her letters or ask about his son. Convinces him that she doesn't blame him.

(3) Describe the moment when your protagonist(s) crosses the point of no return and cannot change their mind.

Eliza dies, having spent the last decade trying to get him free. He doesn't want her death to be in vain.

(4) Fill in some of the blanks: How will your characters get from the point of no return to the climax?

Constant appeals
Constant letter to goverment officials
letters to newspapers
Letters to police begging them to reopen the investigation into his wife's death.