Resource for generic plot hooks?
Asked by: Tonya Johnson
How do you make a good plot hook in D&D?
How To Create Powerful RPG Plot Hooks, Part I
- Hook PCs By Grabbing Their Attention.
- Clearly Tell What’s In It For The Characters.
- Add A Call To Action.
- Use Different Types Of Hooks To Prevent Your Stories From Becoming Stale.
- Give The Characters A Choice Whenever Possible.
How do you write a unique plot?
Follow these rules to ensure you have a good plot
- Plot Rule 1: Create a plot skeleton. …
- Plot Rule 2: Flesh out your plot. …
- Plot Rule 3: Bring your plot to a powerful resolution. …
- Plot Rule 4: End your story at a natural stopping place. …
- Plot Rule 5: Make sure your characters resolve conflicts on their own.
How do you come up with a plot?
10 Tips for Plotting Your Novel: Step-by-Step Guide
- Generate ideas. …
- Start with a simple, compelling premise. …
- Have a clear central conflict. …
- Choose your structure. …
- Trace out general story arcs. …
- Build subplots. …
- Think about cause and effect. …
- Write a detailed outline.
Whats a good plot for a story?
There are three elements to a good plot: challenge, conflict, and character. You can create them in any order; it’s really up to you and how you work. What matters is that you have all three—and give all three of them equal attention when you’re writing.
How can I make my plot more interesting?
- Integrate the plot. No plot exists in isolation. …
- Don’t confuse it with action. The plot relies on a consistent line of actions from start to finish. …
- Surprise them- but not all of them. …
- Stick to the rules. …
- DON’T stick to the rules. …
- Stick to a theme- and revisit it. …
- Make it matter.
- Avoid Stolen or Borrowed Tales.
- Resist The Lure of the Sensational.
- Turn a Stereotype on its Head.
- Tell the Story Only You Can Tell.
- Keep it Real by Taking it Slow.
- Deliver Your Story From Circumstantial Cliché
- Elevate the Ordinary.
- Rescue Gratuitous Scenes From Melodramatic Action.
- Exposition. Exposition is the beginning of the story and prepares the way for upcoming events to unfold. …
- Rising Action. It is that point where the main problem or conflict is revealed. …
- Climax. …
- Falling Action. …
- Resolution.
- A character’s home is split in two by a sudden Earthquake. …
- A character finds lost paint cans from a famous artist.
- Three friends go on a trip to a foreign country together, only for them each to get lost.
- A character deeply embedded in a local drug cartel looks for a way out.
- I didn’t mean to kill her.
- The air turned black all around me.
- Icy fingers gripped my arm in the darkness.
- Wandering through the graveyard it felt like something was watching me.
- The eyes in the painting follow him down the corridor.
- A shrill cry echoed in the mist.
- Love Triangle. The love triangle is one of the biggest clichés, and it occurs much often in romance novels, as well as in other genres that are sprinkled with romance, especially in Young Adult. …
- The Mirror Look. …
- The Mary Sue. …
- The Happily Ever After. …
- The Random Romance.
- Tap into your emotions. Your story won’t resonate with others if it is void of emotion, as I discovered when writing that first draft of my own story. …
- List the turning points. …
- Write everything down. …
- Use the senses. …
- Find the theme. …
- Tell a story.
- Character. This is so important, because unless your reader feels something for the characters, they won’t care what happens to them, and they won’t read on. …
- Plot. …
- Setting. …
- Point of View. …
- Style. …
- Theme. …
- Literary Devices.
How do I make my story not cliche?
10 Tips to Avoid Clichés in Writing
What makes a good plot twist?
Ensure your twist is believable and necessary – and makes sense. While plot twists, by definition, are sudden, unexpected and even shocking changes of direction, they must still be realistic and sensible. No matter how unpredictable it might be, a plot twist that’s outlandish or doesn’t make sense is not effective.
What are the five types of plot?
Five types of plots
What are some unique plots?
63 Film Story Ideas
What are some good story starters?
Story starters
What are some plot cliches?
5 Cliché Story Plots You Should Avoid
How can I write my own story?
Through the process I have found six important steps to be helpful:
How do you write a 100 word story?
The same loose structure you know you introduce a character you have something bad happen to them you have a and then they overcome the conflict.
How many pages is a short story?
At around 10 to 25 pages, that makes short stories much shorter than novels, with only a few approaching novella length. A piece of fiction shorter than 1,000 words is considered a “short short story” or “flash fiction,” and anything less than 300 words is rightfully called “microfiction.”
What makes a story interesting?
We gain a sense of characters’ different personalities, views, quirks (everyone has their own voice) Dialogue serves the story (characters don’t just sit around telling each other what they had for breakfast) Dialogue deepens or develops connections between characters such as conflict and other emotional elements.
How do you know if a plot is good?
The conflict should get more and more tense or exciting. The tension should reach a high point or “climax” near the end of the story, then ease off. The basic steps of a plot are: conflict begins, things go right, things go WRONG, final victory (or defeat), and wrap‑up. The right–wrong steps can repeat.
What are the 7 elements of a story?
Did you know there are seven basic elements in every successful story?