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PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE THIS PAGE WILL REMAIN ACTIVE FOR PURPOSES OF EDUCATION AND RECORDS, IT IS OUTDATED. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE NEWEST VERSION. 5 Steps to Writing Your Second Turning Point Anybody Can Write a Novel   Chapter 4 “Plot Points” – Section 8 “The Second Turning Point” With Links to Supplementary Material In the last article, on the Second Pinch Point, I compared the Disaster to having been put into a literal pit, and the Second Pinch Point as the protagonist's realization that the antagonistic force has begun to shovel dirt into the pit with the intention of burying your hero alive. For a seco

PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE THIS PAGE WILL REMAIN ACTIVE FOR PURPOSES OF EDUCATION AND RECORDS, IT IS OUTDATED. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE NEWEST VERSION. 6 Steps to Writing Your Second Pinch Point Anybody Can Write a Novel   Chapter 4 “Plot Points” – Section 8 “The Second Pinch Point” With Links to Supplementary Material After your protagonist has encountered the Disaster plot-point, during which he/she nearly lost everything they had fought so hard for, there needs to be an event which shakes them out of their emotional turmoil just enough so that they feel they must continue the fight. This event is called the S

PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE THIS PAGE WILL REMAIN ACTIVE FOR PURPOSES OF EDUCATION AND RECORDS, IT IS OUTDATED. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE NEWEST VERSION. 5 Steps to Writing Your Story's Disaster Anybody Can Write a Novel   Chapter 4 “Plot Points” – Section 7 “The Disaster” With Links to Supplementary Material After your Midpoint (where the Antagonistic Force confronted your Protagonist and won), your Protagonist will have an emotional spiral into turmoil and dire consequences for everyone who had stakes in your protagonist's victory. Not only that, but your Protagonist will feel and take this failure more than any

PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE THIS PAGE WILL REMAIN ACTIVE FOR PURPOSES OF EDUCATION AND RECORDS, IT IS OUTDATED. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE NEWEST VERSION. 5 Steps to Writing Your Story's Midpoint Anybody Can Write a Novel   Chapter 4 “Plot Points” – Section 6 “The Midpoint” With Links to Supplementary Material If the First Pinch Point was the rise of a metaphorical hammer over the skull of your protagonist, then the Midpoint is when it comes crashing down—knocking your hero senseless. The Midpoint is the climax of Act II, where the protagonist reacts to the First Pinch Point's imminent threat or challenge tha

PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE THIS PAGE WILL REMAIN ACTIVE FOR PURPOSES OF EDUCATION AND RECORDS, IT IS OUTDATED. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE NEWEST VERSION. 6 Steps to Writing Your First Pinch Point/Main Confrontation Anybody Can Write a Novel   Chapter 5 “Plot Points” – Section 5 “The First Pinch Point” With Links to Supplementary Material So you've spent the last few chapters of you novel, working on you Rising Action. Within this plot-point, your Protagonist has been aiming for a goal, meeting failure and success, and growing increasingly comfortable or confident that they can achieve that goal. Now, it's time to

PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE THIS PAGE WILL REMAIN ACTIVE FOR PURPOSES OF EDUCATION AND RECORDS, IT IS OUTDATED. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE NEWEST VERSION. 6 Steps to Writing Your Story's Rising Action Anybody Can Write a Novel   Chapter 4 “Plot Points” – Section 4 “The Rising Action” With Links to Supplementary Material Welcome to Act II of your story, where we are going to start by discussing Rising Action. Rising Action is a series of events or chapters that occur after your protagonist realizes how they are going to resolve their problem in the First Turning Point. For me, this is often the most fun, lighthearte

PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE THIS PAGE WILL REMAIN ACTIVE FOR PURPOSES OF EDUCATION AND RECORDS, IT IS OUTDATED. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE NEWEST VERSION. 5 Steps to Writing Your Story's Stand Up Anybody Can Write a Novel   Chapter 4 “Plot Points” – Section 9 “The Stand Up” With Links to Supplementary Material Within the past few plot-points of Act II, and ever since the Disaster, the mood of your story should have been a constant downhill spiral that finally slowed to a stop in the Second Turning Point, as your protagonist finally determined how to resolve their problem. Now, we finally get to the point where it i

PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE THIS PAGE WILL REMAIN ACTIVE FOR PURPOSES OF EDUCATION AND RECORDS, IT IS OUTDATED. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE NEWEST VERSION. 8 Steps to Writing Your Story's Epilogue Anybody Can Write a Novel   Chapter 4 “Plot Points” – Section 11 “The Epilogue With Links to Supplementary Material This is the final plot-point of your story, after the conclusion in your Climax. This is a sad and yet proud moment for me... like seeing you all graduate *wipes tear from the corner of my eye. But then again, we still have quite a few more chapters on various topics before we're finished. Feel free to visit the Gu

6 Tips for Writing Dystopian Fiction Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0 Chapter 2 “Genres” – Section 8 “Dystopia” (Previous Tutorial)             (Next Tutorial) "Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it." -John Lennon From strange organizations that run the world to giant death games of various sorts, the dystopian genre has been very popular as of late. This is the genre which is characterized by disenfranchised hero fighting against a totalit

8 Tips for Becoming Self-motivated to Write Anybody Can Write a Novel   Chapter 1 “Beginning to Write” – Section 4 “Self-Discipline” With Links to Supplementary Material I've talked before about dealing with writer's block, and different techniques for conquering it. But how do we write diligently and with self-motivation, given the overwhelming amount of distraction around us and the difficulty in becoming self-motivated? Today, I'm going to give some of the strategies that I have found to help me the most, so that you can try them or even modify them to fit your own personal strengths and vulnerabilities.