Today's efforts were again aimed at Plot, this time at the "Five Key Plot Points".
1. INCITING INCIDENT
2. LOCK IN
3. FIRST CULMINATION (Mid-point Crisis)
4. MAIN CULMINATION (Main Climax)
5. THIRD ACT TWIST
From what I've been reading, and understanding ( 3 Awesome Plot Structures for Building Bestsellers ) , the Five Key Plot Points is a "Fichtean Curve" and links to Libbie Hawker's (Take Off Your Pants) guidelines on Pacing (Triangles, see my post of June 4th). Lots of crises in the rising action leading up to the climax, very short falling action.
Taking Libbie Hawker's advice, each of the little curves is a chapter, is problem-solution, which builds the pace - the difference between a book that you can't put down and one that you put down all too easily.
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