In the last couple of days I've been thinking of Drivers.
I'm thinking that maybe my focus on creating a monomyth driver is a bad choice on my behalf. What I'm looking at is a 4-act driver.
In simple terms the 4 act is broken down thusly:
Introduction
Reacting
Acting
Closure
I would say more but at the moment I've got a busy week upcoming and have many emails to reply to.
Yup, that's my go to. Although I do Act/Scene 1 - Exposition, Act/Scene 2 - Rising Action, Act/Scene 3 Climax.... I feel like "Closure" or falling action, or whatever you want to call it is usually dealt with quickly, although if I do feel like a whole conversation or scene would make it better I would.
ReplyDeleteI use this framework around 1 theme... like say I want to explore a werewolf learning a Gift from a spirit so that I have some notion of the area I am exploring. I find that narrowing it just this bit before starting drives my mind and story much faster to the good stuff than just starting with a completely blank slate.