Hey writing frens - I have a question and I need some advice. I've outlined a new short story, and I sort of like it ...but I think it's missing something Act 1 introduced the characters and presents a mystery. Act 2 is a procedural: they solve the mystery & enter inner sanctum
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4/ ...but not 2B or 3". We've got the Hero with a Thousand Faces "gathering of the team".
@LibertyFarmNH put her finger on it "it sounds like that one terrible Robin Hood movie where the movie wraps with the title card 'and now the adventure begins'"Show this thread -
6/ i.e. "so why not tell me the story, and cut all this intro crap?" I see three possible solutions: 1) keep act 1 and act 2A, and now define act 2B - a new conflict - of about the same size as act 2A 2) realize that this ENTIRE thing is just act 1, and write a big story >>
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7/ 3) decide that this is what Elmore Leonard would call "the parts that people skip over", and thus cut it all I don't like #3, because I find the mystery and the procedural fun. I dislike 2, because it implies writing a LARGE story and I want to keep this small and light.
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8/ ...so I'm leaning towards option 1: write an act 2B - a kind of separate adventure. ...but I'm not 100% sure that that's right. Thoughts
@JASutherlandBks@AetherCzar@robkroese@NerdKing52@BrianNiemeier@MorgonAuthor ? (please feel free to tag in others I missed)Show this thread -
9/ Great advice from
@JASutherlandBks and@KarlKGallagher , and great conversation with@LibertyFarmNH over dinner. * some stories are short and simple * I need more characterization of the two protagonists, and a bit of arc for them * I need a bit of thematic unity in act 3Show this thread
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