At the Zurich Writers Workshop in Zurich last weekend, Writer Abroad got her second confirmation that
yes, her novel has structure. This was a great relief, after struggling for a
couple of years to make sure her plot made sense.
Structure is highly
recommended for anyone writing a novel. It’s essential for everything, from
making sure your story has well, story, to making sure your story will be
marketable.
But how do you plot a
novel?
How about reading a
book first?
Writer Abroad used
Story Engineering, by Larry Brooks, to help her understand how to plot the main
points of her novel. It's the most useful book she's read on the subject so far.
At the workshop last
weekend, the instructor, Lee Weatherly, used a Three-Act Graph Worksheet to
help the writers figure out if their book had structure. So here’s a quick test
from the points on her worksheet. If you can answer the following questions,
you probably have a story that makes sense (and if this sounds like Chinese,
read Story Engineering or read Lee’s book, Write a Blockbuster and Get it Published):
What is the main
character’s goal or problem?
Act One: what is the
set-up?
What is the inciting
event?
Act Two: How does the
hero attempt to overcome the problem? Is there cause and effect and escalating
tension?
What is the high
point?
What is the
rug-pulling moment?
What is the hero’s
darkest moment?
What is the climax?
What is the
resolution?
Structure may be hard (and
feel almost impossible) to get right at first, but then it makes everything
else easier—even writing the synopsis.
A synopsis, as Writer
Abroad learned over the weekend, is just a way for agents to figure out if your
story has structure. So your synopsis doesn’t need to be a scene-by-scene blow
of your book (whoops!), it just needs to answer the above questions. For Writer
Abroad, this was a real revelation and allowed her to trim her two-page synopsis
to one (well, almost one).
Anyone else have good
resources to share for understanding story structure?
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