What is your Time Frame?
- How much time do you have to finish this Story?
- Do you have a Month?
- Do you have 2 Months?
- Do you have 2 Weeks?
- Is it self-imposed?
- Are you writing for someone else?
- What’s your schedule?
- How much time per Day do you have to Write?
- How much time per Week do you have to Write?
- How Fast are you?
- What’s your pace for a 30′ time frame?
- How many pages can you write in an hour?
Characters
- Which Characters do you need?
- What are the Essential Roles in the Story?
- Which roles do the Main characters play?
- Do they evolve as a team?
- Do they evolve into a team?
- Are their goals related?
- When to present the Goals?
- What is the scale of the Goal?
- If the scale is large enough your characters may need to 1st unveil the world they evolve in.
- Do you display the Characters Goals in the 1st chapters?
- Do you display their Goal in the chapter they are introduced?
- Do you present their Goal after they went through a crisis?
- After which Crisis?
- After chapter 3?
- After chapter 6?
- Use Archetypes.
- They define your preliminary frame.
- You’ll write more Efficiently.
- Your dialogue will be more consistent.
Which part of the Story is Essential?
- Can you summarize your Story in a 5 lines Paragraph?
- Can you summarize it in a phrase?
- Can you describe the interaction between the Protagonist & Antagonist in 1 phrase?
- Can you describe the main principle of this World in 1 phrase?
- Can you describe the consequences of the Antagonist Goal in 1 phrase?
- Can you describe each Character & Setting with 3 words?
- Do you need more than 10 chapters?
- Do you need Research chapters?
- Do your characters need to Investigate?
- Do you need Preparation chapters?
- Do your characters need to gather Resources?
- How many Crisis do you need?
- How much time do your characters need to Rest?
- How much Comfort do they need?
- Do you need Rest chapters?
- No Rest can be beneficial to the intensity of the story.
- Do you need Pondering chapters?
- Do you need more than 3 parts per chapter?
- Every chapter has 3 parts:
- Initialization.
- Conflict.
- Outcome/Aftermath
- Do you need more than 4 words per sentence?
- How long are your Phrases?
- Do certain characters need long phrases?
- Are certain characters silent?
- Are certain characters quiet?
- Do they balance each other?
- How short should be your Short sentences?
- How long should be your Short sentences?
- Where do I use the unused ideas?
- In Another chapter.
- In a Sequel.
- In Another part of the Series.
- In Another story.
Using the Environment
- Tempo, Rhythm & Conflicts
- How will the Crisis be displayed?
- How will the Crisis occur?
- Was it avoidable?
- Was it predictable?
- Was there a preliminary element alerting the characters?
- Seeding
- When should you seed an Element?
- 2 chapters before the event.
- It is a reasonable Time frame if you do not know when to introduce the element/clue.
- It leaves enough room for both the Characters & the Public to identify the element.
- It leaves enough time for everyone (Characters, Public & You) to remember the element.
- Development
- What is the size of your world?
- What are the Focal points of a setting?
- What attracts the characters?
- Which elements are disruptive?
- What is undesirable?
- What should be avoided?
- Should you mention useless elements?
- Ending
- The story should end As Soon As Possible.
- How long should the Epilogue be?
- How many endings have you written?
- Have did you hierarchize them?
Do you write with Music?
- Music is your Timer.
- Limit the length of a scene to 1 song.
- Try to write 2-3 pages every 20′.
- Music can help you to focus.
- As do short time limits.
- Rhythm & Atmosphere
- The music will accompany the Scene.
- What are the noises around you?
- How’s the weather?
- How does it affect your pace?
- How do music influence your tempo?
- How do music influence your pacing?
- How do music influence the Colors you use?
- Prepare a Playlist before starting
- Would you use an Album?
- Would you use an premade Playlist?
- Playlists with different song lengths will allow you to experiment different Rhythms.