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Save the cat! Outline:
Note: Not all of these beats are equal in scene length. Some can be very short, others long.
Opening Image: They way your novel opens, usually with a scene, some narration. Introduction to the protagonist/world. (0-1% of the novel)
Theme stated: Life lesson, what does the protagonist need to learn before the end of the story? This is stated by a character that is not the hero. (at 5%)
Setup: Thing that needs fixing. (First 1-10%)
Catalyst: (Inciting incident) The thing that kick starts everything and ensures people can’t go back. (At around 10%)
Debate: Reactions to the inciting incident. (Around 10-20% in the novel. If your novel is 400 pages this happens between page 40-80)
Break into 2: Hero accepts the call to action. (At 20%)
Theme Stated/ B Story: Introduction of a new character, or the character that helps the hero learn the theme. (At around 22%)
Fun and Games: Hero in their new world. (from 20 to 50% in the book aka page 80 to 200 in a 400 page novel) This is called fun and games because that’s what it is to the audience.
Midpoint: The middle of the book. Literally. False defeat/victory. Stakes are raised. Either things have been going the heroes way and they are on top of the world about to lose it all. Or things have been going down hill and this is where things start to get better. (At 50%, page 200.)
Bad guys (Internal) close in: If the midpoint was a false defeat, this is the point where things slowly get better. But the heroes flaws are closing in. (At 50-75%)
All is lost: Whiff of death. Rock bottom, something happens that shakes everything and crumbles the heroes. (At 75% Or page 300)
Dark night of the soul: Return to normal. This is where the hero deals with the darkest point. Reaction to all is lost. (At 75 to 80%)
Dark night epiphany: This is where the hero learns the life lesson/theme. (internally) (At 75 to 80%)
Breaking into 3: Hero realizes how he has to fix himself. (At 80%)
Finale: Hero proves that he truly learned the lesson/theme. (At 80 - 99%)
Gathering the team: Hero gathers the people around him. (At 80 - 99%)
Executing the plan: They execute the plan. (At 80 - 99%)
High tower surprise: Final act set back. (At 80 - 99%)
Dig deep down: Hero uses their learned theme to band together. (At 80 - 99%)
Final image: Opposing image to the opening image.Final scene of the novel. (At 99-100%)
So, as I've gotten deeper into writing as a hobby again, all the reasons that made me stop doing it years ago have shown themselves once again. Bafflingly enough, it's way more difficult for me right now than it was as a rusty beginner weeks ago. Something something the learning curve:
I am totally somewhere in the "This is hard!" or "I don't know s***" zones right now (and it's where I stopped last time.) On this second go-around, I won't let it defeat me, though! Been reading little advice tidbits here and there that have been really, really helpful.
A few gems from a great discussion about the purpose of a draft that spoke to me:
Q. What makes you keep writing your first draft even though it's a complete mess?
I. Being a complete mess is the one and only job of the first draft. Proof of life. Keep going. It's like moving, which is the world's single worst activity. You box up every fucking thing in your head, and set it all out in your new space, and it's the worst day of your life when you do. And the satisfaction of moving all those boxes and finishing the laborious work is fleeting because now your new space looks like absolute garbage, and it will keep looking like a cluttered unlivable mess for months and you know it and you wonder why you even bothered moving. But you slowly unpack and organize and hang things on the wall until one day you're living in the home you always imagined.
II. Think of the mess as a puzzle that you get to have fun solving.
III. It's only a mess compared to other things you've read. But other things you've read are finished.
Stop comparing your work in progress to finished works.
It takes months or even years to finish most stories (excepting short stories and maybe novelettes). You're not going to get there on your first draft, or your second, or even your third. So, according to the words of Save the Cat! Writes a Novel, "Don't be afraid to write crap. Crap makes great fertilizer."
IV. Writing anything is an accomplishment. So many people think about, talk about, post about writing… and never do. (shush, I know I'm guilty of that at this moment!!)
Set a daily goal (words, pages, whatever). Hit it each day and take pride in JUST THAT accomplishment. It will get easier each day to reach that goal it as it becomes a habit rather than a chore.
Your story can't just exist in your head, it has to be given form. Writing it will gradually, eventually reveal what you can keep, what you must refine, and what you need to mercilessly cast away. If it's only in your head, it ALL exists, good, bad, and mediocre. Putting it in words starts the process of separating it from your mind and ego, and will start to give you some detachment and perspective for further drafts. It might start as a mewling little lump of words that drools and vomits and shits itself but by GOD you are going to raise… er, revise… that story into a fine figure of a tale.
As the sayings go, all writing is good writing. And all writing is rewriting.
It takes one minute to imagine the scene and 500 hours to write it
If this isn't the truest thing
To His Knees
Fandom: Blue Lock
Pairings: Nagi Seishirou x Mikage Reo
Rating: E
Wordcount: 6477
Warning: Non-Con
Summary: If only Reo knew Nagi’s goal had always been to stay by his side. Even if it meant bringing Reo to his knees. Even if it meant bringing a kingdom to its knees.
Prompt: Kneeling, from @heresykinktober
Dead Dove: Do Not Eat. Archive warnings apply!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Image credit to Doğu Tuncer on Pexels
It's already Day 3 of ChriSawa weekend here in my timezone... I'm a bit out of practice with drawing anything but here is a lineart I whipped up for the free day! And I know that Eijun, for one, is feeling hot and bothered here... Thank you to @cswweek2021 for consistently bringing this event back every year 🥺 It is much appreciated!
affirmations for writers: i know how to write. i have seen sentences before, and i know how to make one. i can identify up to several words and their meanings. i am not afraid of semicolons.
Consider; this.
Tips from a Beta Reading Writer
This one's for the scenes with multiple characters, and you're not sure how to keep everyone involved.
Writing group scenes is chaos. Someone’s talking, someone’s interrupting, someone’s zoning out thinking about breadsticks. And if you’re not careful, half your cast fades into the background like NPCs in a video game. I used to struggle with this so much—my characters would just exist in the scene without actually affecting it. But here’s what I've learned and have started implementing:
✨ Give everyone a job in the scene ✨
Not their literal job—like, not everyone needs to be solving a crime or casting spells. I mean: Why are they in this moment? What’s their role in the conversation?
My favourite examples are:
The Driver: Moves the convo forward. They have an agenda, they’re pushing the action.
The Instigator: Pokes the bear. Asks the messy questions. Stirring the pot like a chef on a mission.
The Voice of Reason: "Guys, maybe we don’t commit arson today?"
The Distracted One: Completely in their own world. Tuning out, doodling on a napkin, thinking about their ex.
The Observer: Not saying much, but noticing everything. (Quiet characters still have presence!)
The Wild Card: Who knows what they’ll do? Certainly not them. Probably about to make things worse.
If a character has no function, they’ll disappear. Give them something—even if it’s just a side comment, a reaction, or stealing fries off someone’s plate. Keep them interesting, and your readers will stay interested too.
Pssst
Hey, are you an artist or writer with WIPs?
Come here... I got a secret for you pssst come ‘ere
waiting in deep suspense
Psst you ready here comes the secret
Here it comes
I am also very curious about this secret
Your time spent enjoying the creative process is infinitely more valuable that any final project you create. So stop putting yourself down for never finishing or posting those WIPs because every moment you spent creating something you loved is a moment not wasted. Your progress and talent is measured by your passion not your number of posts.
This post went from 3k to 7k overnight and that just goes to show how many of you need to hear this so make sure you don’t ever forget it
editing is just you vs. past-you in a duel of questionable comma placement and emotional instability
hey if you're the type of writer that's like me where you tend to write specific scenes first that vaguely weave together into a plot, you might like using obsidian as a writing app.
my frustration with other writing applications is that i will write my scenes out of order and it's hard to move things around and rearrange them on a regular document.
but with obsidian there's this canvas feature where you can just write all your scenes and plot moments on these little cards that you can freely rearrange. you can color code them and connect them too.
here's the canvas i've created for my current multi-chapter fic: (if you zoom in you can see all the text in each card this what it looks like zoomed out)
as you can see, i color code them based off chapters and will group them next to a document card with the working title of the chapter. anything not color-coded are scenes that don't have a proper place quite yet or it's just world building references. this app can also be good for note-taking and collecting research!
best of all, it's FREE!!! the only downside is that if you want your stuff to sync across devices, you do have to pay for that. i constantly hop between my laptop and desktop so i pay for the syncing. but if you write on only one device it's completely free!
i typically use it for organizing my thoughts for a first draft. once i get all the scenes arranged and mostly written out, i will copy and paste them into ellipsus (also free & highly recommended as a google doc alternative) so that they're all in one document that i can edit.
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Writers when it's time to write the story no one forced them to come up with in the first place 🙄