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Writing - part xx836 Writing a Novel, the Protagonist and the Initial Scene, Example

 16 January 2022, Writing - part xx836 Writing a Novel, the Protagonist and the Initial Scene, Example

Announcement: Delay, my new novels can be seen on the internet, but my primary publisher has gone out of business—they couldn’t succeed in the past business and publishing environment.  I’ll keep you informed, but I need a new publisher.  More information can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  Check out my novels—I think you’ll really enjoy them.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I’m using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I’ll keep you informed along the way.

Today’s Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing websites http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don’t confuse your readers.

2. Entertain your readers.

3. Ground your readers in the writing.

4. Don’t show (or tell) everything.

     4a. Show what can be seen, heard, felt, smelled, and tasted on the stage of the novel.

5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

These are the steps I use to write a novel including the five discrete parts of a novel:

 

1.     Design the initial scene

2.     Develop a theme statement (initial setting, protagonist, protagonist’s helper or antagonist, action statement)

a.      Research as required

b.     Develop the initial setting

c.      Develop the characters

d.     Identify the telic flaw (internal and external)

3.     Write the initial scene (identify the output: implied setting, implied characters, implied action movement)

4.     Write the next scene(s) to the climax (rising action)

5.     Write the climax scene

6.     Write the falling action scene(s)

7.     Write the dénouement scene

I finished writing my 29th novel, working title, Detective, potential title Blue Rose: Enchantment and the Detective.  The theme statement is: Lady Azure Rose Wishart, the Chancellor of the Fae, supernatural detective, and all around dangerous girl, finds love, solves cases, breaks heads, and plays golf.  

Here is the cover proposal for Blue Rose: Enchantment and the Detective




Cover Proposal

The most important scene in any novel is the initial scene, but eventually, you have to move to the rising action. I am continuing to write on my 30th novel, working title Red Sonja.  I finished my 29th novel, working title Detective.  I’m planning to start on number 31, working title Shifter

How to begin a novel.  Number one thought, we need an entertaining idea.  I usually encapsulate such an idea with a theme statement.  Since I’m writing a new novel, we need a new theme statement.  Here is an initial cut.

 

For novel 30:  Red Sonja, a Soviet spy, infiltrates the X-plane programs at Edwards AFB as a test pilot’s administrative clerk, learns about freedom, and is redeemed.

 

For novel 31:  Deirdre and Sorcha are redirected to French finishing school where they discover difficult mysteries, people, and events. 

 

For Novel 32:  Shiggy Tash finds a lost girl in the isolated Scottish safe house her organization gives her for her latest assignment: Rose Craigie has nothing, is alone, and needs someone or something to rescue and acknowledge her as a human being.

 

Here is the scene development outline:

 

1. Scene input (comes from the previous scene output or is an initial scene)

2. Write the scene setting (place, time, stuff, and characters)

3. Imagine the output, creative elements, plot, telic flaw resolution (climax) and develop the tension and release.

4. Write the scene using the output and creative elements to build the tension.

5. Write the release

6. Write the kicker

          

Today:  Why don’t we go back to the basics and just writing a novel?  I can tell you what I do, and show you how I go about putting a novel together.  We can start with developing an idea then move into the details of the writing. 

 

To start a novel, I picture an initial scene.  I may start from a protagonist or just launch into mental development of an initial scene.  I get the idea for an initial scene from all kinds of sources.  To help get the creative juices flowing, let’s look at the initial scene. 

 

1.     Meeting between the protagonist and the antagonist or the protagonist’s helper

2.     Action point in the plot

3.     Buildup to an exciting scene

4.     Indirect introduction of the protagonist

 

Ideas.  We need ideas.  Ideas allow us to figure out the protagonist and the telic flaw.  Ideas don’t come fully armed from the mind of Zeus.  We need to cultivate ideas. 

 

1.     Read novels. 

2.     Fill your mind with good stuff—basically the stuff you want to write about. 

3.     Figure out what will build ideas in your mind and what will kill ideas in your mind.

4.     Study.

5.     Teach. 

6.     Make the catharsis. 

7.     Write.

 

The development of ideas is based on study and research, but it is also based on creativity.  Creativity is the extrapolation of older ideas to form new ones or to present old ideas in a new form.  It is a reflection of something new created with ties to the history, science, and logic (the intellect).  Creativity requires consuming, thinking, and producing.

 

If we have filled our mind with all kinds of information and ideas, we are ready to become creative.  Creativity means the extrapolation of older ideas to form new ones or to present old ideas in a new form.  Literally, we are seeing the world in a new way, or actually, we are seeing some part of the world in a new way. 

 

I’ve worked through creativity and the protagonist.  The ultimate point is that if you properly develop your protagonist, you have created your novel.  This moves us on to plots and initial scenes.  As I noted, if you have a protagonist, you have a novel.  The reason is that a protagonist comes with a telic flaw, and a telic flaw provides a plot and theme.  If you have a protagonist, that gives you a telic flaw, a plot, and a theme.  I will also argue this gives you an initial scene as well. 

 

So, we worked extensively on the protagonist.  I gave you many examples great, bad, and average.  Most of these were from classics, but I also used my own novels and protagonists as examples.  Here’s my plan.

 

1.     The protagonist comes with a telic flaw – the telic flaw isn’t necessarily a flaw in the protagonist, but rather a flaw in the world of the protagonist that only the Romantic protagonist can resolve.

2.     The telic flaw determines the plot.

3.     The telic flaw determines the theme.

4.     The telic flaw and the protagonist determines the initial scene.

5.     The protagonist and the telic flaw determines the initial setting.

6.     Plot examples from great classic plots.

7.     Plot examples from mediocre classic plots.

8.     Plot examples from my novels.

9.     Creativity and the telic flaw and plots.

10.  Writer’s block as a problem of continuing the plot.

 

Every great or good protagonist comes with their own telic flaw.  I showed how this worked with my own writing and novels.  Let’s go over it in terms of the plot.

 

This is all about the telic flaw.  Every protagonist and every novel must come with a telic flaw.  They are the same telic flaw.  That telic flaw can be external, internal or both.

 

We found that a self-discovery telic flaw or a personal success telic flaw can potentially take a generic plot.  We should be able to get an idea for the plot purely from the protagonist, telic flaw and setting.  All of these are interlaced and bring us our plot.

 

For a great plot, the resolution of the telic flaw has to be a surprise to the protagonist and to the reader.  This is both the measure and the goal.  As I noted before, for a great plot, the author needs to make the telic flaw resolution appear to be impossible, but then it becomes inevitable in the climax.  There is much more to this. 

 

I evaluated the plots from the list of 112 classics and categorized them according to the following scale:

 

Overall (o) – These are the three overall plots we defined above: redemption, achievement, and revelation.

 

Achievement (a) – There are plots that fall under the idea of the achievement plot. 

 

Quality (q) – These are plots based on a personal or character quality.

 

Setting (s) – These are plots based on a setting.

 

Item (i) – These are plots based on an item.

I looked at each novel and pulled out the plot types, the telic flaw, plotline, and the theme of the novel.  I didn’t make a list of the themes, but we identified the telic flaw as internal and external and by plot type.  This generally gives the plotline. 

Overall (o)

1.     Redemption (o) – 17i, 7e, 23ei, 8 – 49%

2.     Revelation (o) –2e, 64, 1i – 60%

3.     Achievement (o) – 16e, 19ei, 4i, 43 – 73%

Achievement (a)

1.     Detective or mystery (a) – 56, 1e – 51%

2.     Revenge or vengeance (a) –3ie, 3e, 45 – 46%

3.     Zero to hero (a) – 29 – 26%

4.     Romance (a) –1ie, 41 – 37%

5.     Coming of age (a) –1ei, 25 – 23%

6.     Progress of technology (a) – 6 – 5%

7.     Discovery (a) – 3ie, 57 – 54%

8.     Money (a) – 2e, 26 – 25%

9.     Spoiled child (a) – 7 – 6%

10.  Legal (a) – 5 – 4%

11.  Adultery (qa) – 18 – 16%

12.  Self-discovery (a) – 3i, 12 – 13%

13.  Guilt or Crime (a) – 32 – 29%

14.  Proselytizing (a) – 4 – 4%

15.  Reason (a) – 10, 1ie – 10%

16.  Escape (a)  – 1ie, 23 – 21%

17.  Knowledge or Skill (a) – 26 – 23%

18.  Secrets (a) – 21 – 19%

Quality (q)

1.     Messiah (q) – 10 – 9%

2.     Adultery (qa) – 18 – 16%

3.     Rejected love (rejection) (q) – 1ei, 21 – 20%

4.     Miscommunication (q) – 8 – 7%

5.     Love triangle (q) – 14 – 12%

6.     Betrayal (q) – 1i, 1ie, 46 – 43%

7.     Blood will out or fate (q) –1i, 1e, 26 – 25%

8.     Psychological (q) –1i, 45 – 41%

9.     Magic (q) – 8 – 7%

10.  Mistaken identity (q) – 18 – 16%

11.  Illness (q) – 1e, 19 – 18%

12.  Anti-hero (q) – 6 – 5%

13.  Immorality (q) – 3i, 8 – 10%

14.  Satire (q) – 10 – 9%

15.  Camaraderie (q) – 19 – 17%

16.  Curse (q) – 4 – 4%

17.  Insanity (q) – 8 – 7%

18.  Mentor (q) – 12 – 11%

Setting (s)

1.     End of the World (s) – 3 – 3%

2.     War (s) – 20 – 18%

3.     Anti-war (s) –2 – 2%

4.     Travel (s) –1e, 62 – 56%

5.     Totalitarian (s) – 1e, 8 – 8%

6.     Horror (s) – 15 – 13%

7.     Children (s) – 24 – 21%

8.     Historical (s) – 19 – 17%

9.     School (s) – 11 – 10%

10.  Parallel (s) – 4 – 4%

11.  Allegory (s) – 10 – 9%

12.  Fantasy world (s) – 5 – 4%

13.  Prison (s) – 2 – 2%

Item (i)

1.     Article (i) – 1e, 46 – 42%

So, what is it about writer’s block?  Many if not most authors and writers will complain about writer’s block.  When I was a younger author, I would get writer’s block very often, but I’ve discovered something very important about writer’s block.  Writer’s block is a function of the plot and not the protagonist.  The correction or resolution of writer’s block comes from centering our writing on the protagonist instead of the plot.  This is what I’d really like to get into as a topic.  Here is an outline of how we will approach this.

 

1.     Problems with a plot focus

2.     Correcting with a protagonist focus

3.     How to figure out a plot with a protagonist focus

4.     Writing development

5.     Fixing or blowing through problems with writing

6.     How to write to prevent writer’s block

7.     The Scene Outline

8.     Exercises

9.     Examples

10.  Conclusions

 

I’ve been spending an enormous amount of time with plots; however, plots, many times, are the problem of writer’s block.  How’s that?

 

Let’s go back to the beginning about novels, plots, characters, and all that. 

 

We start with this: the novel is the revelation of the protagonist.  That means we have a protagonist to reveal, and we have developed our protagonist.  This is very important—that is the development of the protagonist. 

 

The idea of the revelation of the protagonist includes plots, setting, narrative, action, and dialog—it includes everything.  The problem is that first you have to have a protagonist.

 

I don’t think I’m going to give you another example of the development of a protagonist.  What I will do is give an outline of the development of the protagonist          .  Here’s a sketch of just that.  I haven’t tried to do this before, so there might be some development as we do.  Also, this is how I develop a protagonist. 

 

1.     Define the initial scene

2.     At the same time as the above—fit a protagonist into the initial scene.  That means the minimum of:

a.      Telic flaw

b.     Approximate age

c.      Approximate social degree

d.     Sex

3.     Refine the protagonist

a.      Physical description

b.     Background – history of the protagonist

                                                  i.     Birth

                                                ii.     Setting

                                              iii.     Life

                                               iv.     Education

                                                v.     Work

                                               vi.     Profession

                                             vii.     Family

c.      Setting – current

                                                  i.     Life

                                                ii.     Setting

                                              iii.     Work

d.     Name

4.     Refine the details of the protagonist

a.      Emotional description (never to be shared directly)

b.     Mental description (never to be shared directly)

c.      Likes and dislikes (never to be shared directly)

5.     Telic flaw resolution

a.      Changes required for the protagonist to resolve the telic flaw

                                                  i.     Physical changes

                                                ii.     Emotional changes

                                              iii.     Mental changes

b.     Alliances required for the protagonist to resolve the telic flaw

c.      Enemies required for the protagonist to resolve the telic flaw

d.     Plots required for the protagonist to resolve the telic flaw

e.      Obstacles that must be overcome for the protagonist to resolve the telic flaw

 

I always start with an initial scene.  You might say, you have to have an initial scene—fair enough, but the initial scene isn’t just any scene.  The initial scene is the scene that sets the novel, the protagonist, and the telic flaw of the novel (and protagonist).

 

I’m not certain you can write a novel without an initial scene, and I don’t mean that ironically.  The first scene is obviously the first scene in the novel, but let me tell you many times it is not the initial scene.  Almost every regularly published.  In fact, I’d say every regularly published novel will have an actual initial scene.  In self-published, unpublished, and inexperienced novels, you will find many times the initial scene is not really an initial scene.  It might be the first scene in the novel, but it isn’t a scene that sets the novel, the protagonist, and the telic flaw.  Many of these novels have prologues, scenes that set the novel but not the protagonist or the telic flaw, scenes that set the telic flaw without the protagonist, and scenes that set the protagonist but not the telic flaw.  Scenes like this are not initial scenes—they might be the first scene in the novel, but they are worthless.  They won’t sell a novel to a publisher, and they won’t sell a novel to a reader.  I should go into detail about the initial scene.  Perhaps in the context of the protagonist.

 

When I write a novel, I get an idea for an initial scene.  My idea for the initial scene comes from having a protagonist with an inherent telic flaw.  The telic flaw belongs to the protagonist in a modern novel.  Let’s go back up in time and remember what I’ve kept up for a long time.  Here it is:

 

To start a novel, I picture an initial scene.  I may start from a protagonist or just launch into mental development of an initial scene.  I get the idea for an initial scene from all kinds of sources.  To help get the creative juices flowing, let’s look at the initial scene. 

 

1.     Meeting between the protagonist and the antagonist or the protagonist’s helper

2.     Action point in the plot

3.     Buildup to an exciting scene

4.     Indirect introduction of the protagonist

 

These examples of initial scenes are just to get your brain firing.  I only recommend using the first two ideas.  There are four means of writing an effective initial scene.  I know because my novels have been published with these four types of initial scenes.  I don’t use the last two anymore if I can use the first two.  In fact, I can authoritatively tell you, the first two ideas will always allow a great initial scene. 

Notice, you have to pretty much have a protagonist to write an initial scene.  Any time you develop a protagonist who has an inherent telic flaw, you will have an initial scene.  I’ve given this in examples over and over.  In fact, I took over a month to describe the development of Rose Tash.  I’m writing her novel right now. 

 

A protagonist always comes with a telic flaw and with an initial scene.  The point is that authors need to properly place and write the initial scene.  Many inexperienced authors dilute and destroy their initial scene with prologues or placing the actual initial scene at some point other than the beginning of the novel.  How do I know the author has an effective initial scene? 

 

Ultimately, if the scene draws the reader into the novel such that they continue to read and/or buy the novel, then it was effective.  The descriptions and rules of thumb I’m giving you are characteristics of great initial scenes.  Thus, if your initial scene sets the novel, sets the protagonist, and sets the telic flaw, how can it not be successful?  If your initial scene shows the initial meeting between the protagonist and the antagonist or protagonist’s helper, how can it not be exciting?  Then I write, if you have an initial scene, you have a protagonist.

 

The initial scene is the first step in the development of the protagonist.  With an initial scene, I have an idea for a protagonist.  It isn’t necessarily a fully developed protagonist.  I will write that a fully developed protagonist is easy to write an initial scene for; however, most of the time, I have an idea for an initial scene with a shadowy protagonist who then must be fully developed for the novel.  Perhaps an example is a good place to start.  I’ll describe then show you an example next.

 

In my novel, Lilly: Enchantment and the Computer, I envisioned an initial scene where a super genius hacker girl who was impoverished so she could go to school, was caught using another person’s account credits and was saved by the protagonist helper.  That’s the initial scene.

 

Now, to get to this initial scene, we must have a protagonist.  If you notice, the protagonist, at this point just has the barest outline.  I’ll give you more information about this protagonist. 

 

When I first developed the protagonist and the initial scene, she had no name, background, or real development.  All I knew was I wanted a girl.  She is a math and science super genius, and she is poor as poor can be.  How poor?  She is so poor, she is living on the street and uses hacked Fastmart Bucks to purchase food.  That’s the impetus for the initial scene.  She happens to use the Fastmart Bucks of a person who is in line with her.  She gets caught. That’s the basis for the setup of the entire novel. 

 

The protagonist helper happens to be the cashier at the Fastmart that evening.  I knew his name begore I developed her name.  That’s the background for the initial scene.  The important part is that I saw the initial scene as I also discovered or began developing my protagonist.  I wanted a scene where the protagonist was caught hacking and then rescued by the protagonist’s helper.  I’ll show you the initial scene for this novel and then use that as an example for the protagonist development. 

 

The entire point is to develop a protagonist and to set a novel with the initial scene.  The protagonist development is the ultimate power to preventing writer’s block.

 

Here is the initial scene from Lilly: Enchantment and the Computer.  I already gave you the concept of the initial scene.  This is how it came out. 

 

      Autumn 2014 Tacoma, Washington State, USA

Monday evening

All Dane knew about the girl was that she didn’t come into the FastMart very often.  When she did, she didn’t pay with cash.  She always used the FastMart Bucks, which you earned by purchasing gas or food.  What was unusual was that she used a different account ID and phone number every time.

She looked terrible, especially for this part of the city.  She wore a baggy old sweatshirt and an over-large pair of worn-out, not stone-washed, jeans.  She had a ragged backpack on her back.  Her hair was matted and her clothing filthy.  Her face and hands always looked clean, but Dane couldn’t vouch for the rest of her.  He never got close enough to smell her—he figured that would be much too close.  He only knew her from his side of the cash register.  She carried an inexpensive tablet computer in one hand, and her shopping in the crook of her arm.  The tablet had a broken screen and was taped across one corner.  Dane was surprised it worked.

She shuffled, literally shuffled, to his aisle, the only one open at this time of night and lifted a half gallon of milk and a cheap loaf of bread to the counter.  At that moment, a group of four high school boys rushed up impatiently behind her.  They had tried to beat her to the counter to pay for their power drinks and snacks, but were just a second too late.  They pressed right up behind her, but she didn’t budge an inch.

Before Dane could ring up her stuff, she announced in a very soft lilting voice, “It’s four dollars and sixty-three cents with tax.”

Dane turned her a strange look and ran the items through the scanner.  The total came back, four dollars and sixty-three cents.  Dane glanced at her, “You’re right.  Four dollars and sixty-three cents.  How are you going to pay tonight?”

She smiled and lifted her tablet, “Use my FastMart Bucks.”

“What’s your phone number?”

She glanced at her tablet, “253-280-7061.”

“The name on your account?”

“Billy Martin…”

Dane was about to ask her to put her password into the keypad when a voice raised behind her, “Hey Billy, this girl is using your account.  She has your name and password and everything.”

A tall older teen pushed up to the front, “No way.”  He eyed the girl, “You’re stealing my credits…”  It was a statement.

The girl’s face froze.  She moved pretty quickly, but not quickly enough.  Billy Martin seized her by the arm and pulled her back toward himself, “How did you get my name and account information?”  He gripped her other arm and moved the tablet computer into his line of view.  He cursed, “She has everything listed right here.”  He shook her, “How did you get my information?”

The girl flinched and ducked but said nothing.

Billy twisted her arm, “You’re going to tell me, or I’m going to beat it out of you.”

Dane spoke up, “Don’t hurt her.  I’ll call the cops if you like.”

Billy scowled at him, “Keep out of this.  This is between me and her.”

Dane shrugged, “Then take it outside, but I’ll call the cops on her and on you if necessary.”

“Shut up, wimp.  I’ll do what I want.  Right now, I want to know how she stole my account information.”

Dane wasn’t a wimp.  He was tall and muscular, but still pretty thin.  Billy had at least fifty pounds on him.  In the past, Dane had run and skied cross country.  He eyed Billy up and down, “I’ll warn you one more time.  Take it outside.”

Billy eyed Dane back.  He slowly and deliberately wrenched the girl’s tablet from her hand and threw it to the concrete floor.

She gave an anguished cry and tried to pick it up. 

Billy still held tightly to her wrist.  He lifted his boot and ground his heel into the tablet.  It gave a crackle and a pop.  He sneered, “Now you don’t have my information anymore.”

The girl cried out again and struggled to be free.

Billy raised his fist and aimed a blow at the girl’s face.

That’s when Dane vaulted himself over the counter.  He struck Billy’s arm that held the girl’s wrist with his feet.  As a result, Billy’s blow only partially connected with the side of the girl’s face.  When Dane hit Billy’s arm, she pulled loose, staggered back against counter, and then fell to the floor.

Billy went down for a moment but jumped back up almost immediately.  By then, Jeff, the manager of the FastMart was running from the back.  He took one look at what was happening and pulled out his cell phone.  While Jeff rang 911, Dane tugged the girl off the floor by her sweatshirt, grabbed her arm, and ran for the doors. 

Billy roared in surprise then shouted, “After them.”  He was a little slow and inadvertently blocked the aisle to the counter.  By the time, he and the other three boys were in pursuit, Dane and the girl already had a good half block on them. 

Dane didn’t let go of the girl’s arm.  He kept a tight grasp on her and was amazed that she could keep up with him.  At some point, his hold on her arm transitioned to her hand.  She still kept up.  They turned at the corner and then back through an alley.  Dane was familiar with this part of the block—it’s where the garbage went out and was picked up.  The girl seemed to know it well too.  The night was cool and the alley very dark.  The Puget Sound skies were somber and cloud laden although little rain had fallen that day.

Dane exited on the other side of the block and stopped.  They both bent over to catch their breath and see if anyone still followed them.  Dane heard nothing at first, and then police sirens. 

Dane stood straight.  He stared at the girl up and down and wasn’t sure what to say.

She glanced at him and smiled, “Thanks.  No one’s helped me before.”  Then she scowled, “He busted my tablet.”

Dane took a deep lungful of fresh air, “You’re lucky he didn’t bust your face.”  He paused only a moment, then more gently asked, “Are you all right?  He did hit you.”

She shrugged, “I’ve had worse.”

He couldn’t see her face very well in the light from the streetlamps, “What where you doing, and how did you get his account?”

She shrugged again, “I was getting dinner.  I don’t have any money.”

Dane put out his hand, but he didn’t touch her, “I notice you use a different account each time.  Did you steal those too?”

She shrugged, “How else am I supposed to eat?”

“Most people earn money.”

She didn’t look at him, “I am not most people.”

“Who are you?”

She gave a slight smile, “No one has ever asked me that around here either.  I’m Lilly.”

“No one ever asked you…?”  Dane started, he finished with, “I’m Dane, Dane Vale.”  He paused a moment for her to respond.

“It’s Lilly—just Lilly.”

Dane asked, “Are you hungry?”

“Yes.  Very.  I didn’t get anything from FastMart.”  She stared oddly at him, “What about your work?”

“It was almost quitting time for me anyway.  I’d rather not meet up with Billy and his friends again tonight.”

“Me either.”  She glanced at him again, “Are you trying to pick me up?”

It was Dane’s turn to shrug, “Not really.  I’m just a little curious…”

“Curious?”

“I’ve never met a real hacker before.”

She tugged at her lip, “Do you think I’m a hacker?”

“Isn’t that what you are?”

“I guess.”

Dane gave a wave, “Come on.  The campus coffee shop is still open.”

She shuffled behind him, and they headed to 208 Garfield.  Dane was cautious.  He didn’t think they would meet Billy again in this direction, but you couldn’t tell.

Here we are with a completed initial scene.  It continues on a bit more.  Perhaps I’ll show you some of that.  For now, we have an initial scene, and I can begin to explain how I develop a protagonist.  This is how to make a novel with a protagonist focus.

 

In the end, we can figure out what makes a work have a great plot and theme, and apply this to our writing.     

      

The beginning of creativity is study and effort.  We can use this to extrapolate to creativity.  In addition, we need to look at recording ideas and working with ideas.    

    

More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:

http://www.ancientlight.com/
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com  

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