JT mentions Chuck Wendig’s plot structure guidelines, so here they are.
This post is definitely worth reading, so please do!
https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2015/05/05/in-which-i-critique-your-story-that-i-havent-read/
This is JT’s adapted version:
1. HEY LOOK A PROBLEM
2. I’M GONNA JUST GO AHEAD AND FIX THAT PROBLEM AND —
3. OH GOD I MADE IT WORSE
4. OH F*** SOMEBODY ELSE IS MAKING IT WORSE TOO
5. WAIT I THINK I GOT THIS —
6A. SH*T SH*T SH*T
6B. F*** F*** F***
7. IT’S NOT JUST WORSE NOW BUT DIFFERENT
8. EVERYTHING IS COMPLICATED
9. ALL IS LOST
10. WAIT, IS THAT A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL?
11. IT IS BUT IT’S A VELOCIRAPTOR WITH A FLASHLIGHT IN ITS MOUTH
12. WAIT AN IDEA
13. I HAVE BEATEN THE VELOCIRAPTOR AND NOW I HAVE A FLASHLIGHT AND MY PROBLEMS ARE SOLVED IN PART BUT NOT TOO NEATLY
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Melissa Delport is an award-winning author, copywriter, and lover of the written word.
For ten years Melissa owned and operated her own specialized logistics company until she woke up one morning and decided that it was time to put her English degree to good use. She was offered a three-book deal for The Legacy Trilogy and the rest, as they say, is history. Since then, her speculative fiction has been published in both SA and the USA.
Melissa lives in Hillcrest with her husband and three teenagers, none of whom take her seriously.
She also writes romantic suspense as Lissa Del and contemporary romance as Rachel Rhodes.
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JT Lawrence is an author of 30+ books, mother to a menagerie of chaos, voracious reader and coffee drinker, gin fan, yogi, podcast addict, and wild swimmer. Nothing will convince her that magic isn’t real because she makes a living selling her hallucinations.
Her urban fantasy adventures have kept people up all night and made her a USA Today bestselling author and Kindle Unlimited All-Star with close to a hundred million page reads, and counting.
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