No time to lose so let's have a right.
First create the situation. This is the problem, or challenge your character must overcome. It can not be a situation your characters can just walk by and decided they will adapt to the challenges. So, if you do not need to be addressed, preferably for the sake of survival, then it will be a situation of vulnerability.
Some good examples of situations? If you do not take care of him, then everyone in the neighborhood or city, or the planet, is about to die. The asteroid streaking toward Earth, the robots have gained a knowledge of malicious self, plot murder, the death of a family member, the destruction of an entire economy, the change history.
When Apollo 13 had oxygen tank number 1 blow, making it inoperative oxygen tank number 2 and leaving only oxygen tank number 3, which was a situation that needed to be remedied. NASA could not just walk away from it.
Tip 2, let the characters solve the problem. They will probably come up with some pretty stupid ideas at first, but metaphorically sit back and let unravel the mess.
Tip 3, a solution exists. You might not think so at first, but it exists. Every problem has a solution insurmountable. A functional, beautiful and credible solution. Do not leave the story until your characters have found. Never get up from your chair thinking: "I'll figure out how to kill the monster Almighty tomorrow."
Tip 4, write to a deadline. If someone all the time in the world to do something, imagine how long they take? The deadline must be just a little 'less than you think you need. I give my students dozens of useful ideas and strategies, but they still tell me that only by using the concept of maturity, which do more than ever before. If you've ever wondered how TV writers can be a script every week, because this is the end. They have no choice. They accomplish the task, or at maturity, or go get a job parking cars.
Tip 5, the first to write a story. No form material point, a true story. But it can be as short as you want it to be. In fact, the lower the better. If you can do on a page, great. Only a few paragraphs, even better. Just make sure you have a complete story. Beginning, middle and end. And to have an insurmountable situation, the solution, and that you have completed the course within the term.
Tip 6, virtually every sentence in a short story gives you the ability to create a new insurmountable problem. Your great solution requires that several things right. Make sure do not. The climate changes, changing the personality of the characters, change their ability to shoot a gun, change their religious beliefs, change the chemical composition of the atmosphere, change anything you can begin to throw up obstacles and create solutions to these problems well . Remember, they can not walk away from the problem. A solution must be found.
This structure gives very popular story, "It 'just one damn thing after another," that readers of such love. You will also find you're spending very little time on character development. Most readers care very little that poor childhood led Papa Bear. They want to know what to do next Goldilocks. And continue to use that term.
Tip 7, the majority of your book will tell the reader what the problem is and a look at how people find and implement the solution from time to time. Do not include other characters unless it is essential for the reader's understanding. So do not say that Claudia is claustrophobic unless it becomes a way of changing the game in the middle of the book. Come to think of it, not even talking about it. Show that she had an episode claustrophobic at the very beginning of the book.
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