Toolbox: Plot

• Character coping
• Cartesian Circle (character, plot, character, plot, character, plot...)
• Moment of Change!!!!!
• Encompasses all characteristics of a story
• Make your character suffer (give 'em what they want, then take it away, or just DON'T give them what they want)
• What can go wrong?
• Take your character out of his natural setting
• Juxtapose (fairies, unicorns, nuclear bombs)
• Throw in unexpected characters
• Don't overthink it- go with the flow
• Give them a new desire
• Give them booze, fire, diarrhea
• Focus on an important object. Why is it important?
• Add a perspective that questions the status quo
• Heroe's quest; call to adventure!
• Try the tarot card trick
• MICE Quotient
• Think of the tropes
• Influence from other stories (steal something)
• Influence from life
• Kill someone (or remove them some other way). Continue without them, or be haunted by them.
• How do you get from A to B to C?
• If it's not working, go in the opposite direction

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