{"id":1192,"date":"2019-01-18T19:13:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T19:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hgabby.com\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2019-04-26T22:29:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T22:29:17","slug":"writing-the-plot-outline-one-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hgabby.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/18\/writing-the-plot-outline-one-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing the plot outline: One approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hgabby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/pencle-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-153 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/hgabby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/pencle-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Writing the plot outline: One approach<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Write the goal you want to accomplish: Or rather, the goal you want your protagonist to reach by the end of the story. I do this by giving my protagonist a problem to solve. If you have more than one protagonist, say, heroine and hero, this could be that they want the same thing, or they want something opposite from what the other wants.<\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hgabby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Creative_writing_book_cover-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-137 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/hgabby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Creative_writing_book_cover-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a>2cd: Write a quick list of incidents that occur in your story and where they happen. You know, the big things that stick out like a sore thumb. The exciting ones. But don\u2019t allow yourself to get wrapped up in the details just yet, that will come later.<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/hgabby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/book-magic-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-133 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/hgabby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/book-magic-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">3rd: Now make another list about what might happen in-between the incidents. For every incident \u2018scene\u2019 \u2018an engagement of action or dialogue\u2019, you need a moment to reflect, to breath and lick wounds or laugh, and make a decision of what to do next. Remember, keep these lists brief. Wiggle room is like letting in the sunshine or moon glow\u2014inspiration may strike.<\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/hgabby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/once-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/hgabby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/once-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">4th: You\u2019re ready to begin the rough draft.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing the plot outline: One approach Write the goal you want to accomplish: Or rather, the goal you want your protagonist to reach by the end of the story. I do this by giving my protagonist a problem to solve. If you have more than one protagonist, say, heroine and hero, this could be that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing"],"views":4484477,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hgabby.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hgabby.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hgabby.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hgabby.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hgabby.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/hgabby.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"http:\/\/hgabby.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hgabby.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hgabby.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hgabby.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}