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\"\"<\/a>Welcome to the next installment of craft posts by monthly guest columnist, Kay Keppler. Today she\u2019ll share about book structure and how to create it. You can contact Kay through the Writer\u2019s Fun Zone or at kaykeppler@yahoo.com to ask questions, suggest topics, or tell her she\u2019s off her rocker. (She let me say that!)<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s say that you know who your story\u2019s characters are, and you know what they\u2019ll be doing\u2014you have a plot. Now it\u2019s time to write your story. And like many writers, you\u2019ll be sitting there in front of your keyboard and monitor, staring at a blank page, and sweating blood.<\/p>\n

Where to begin?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Every story needs a structure. And that structure depends, in part, on the promises you\u2019re making to the reader. You\u2019re making an emotional promise (\u201cRead this and you\u2019ll be entertained, inspired, unsettled, or comforted\u2014and absorbed<\/em>\u201d) and an intellectual promise (\u201cRead this and you\u2019ll gain a different perspective, learn something new, or confirm what you already know.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Readers need story structure both to understand what they\u2019re reading and to feel something as a result.<\/p>\n

Writers need structure so their stories hold together and make sense. So structure is just a way of looking at your material and organizing it in a way that\u2019s both logical and dramatic.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s lots of ways to do that, and no way is right or wrong. You might prefer a three-act structure, or the hero\u2019s journey. Or a combination. You might like a diary form. It worked for Bridget Jones, and it worked for Robinson Crusoe.<\/p>\n

Still sitting there bleeding? No wonder.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Good Scenes Deliver Your Promises<\/strong><\/p>\n

Remember the promise you made to your reader. Both you and your reader know what that promise is\u2014and your reader may have bought the book because<\/em> of its promise: the happily ever after in the romance, the whodunit in a mystery, the promise of justice in a western or science fiction novel.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s your job to deliver on that promise. You can do that by writing scenes that develop plot and character. Scenes are the building blocks of structure. Developing effective scenes\u2014planning, writing, and linking them\u2014is the key to good storytelling.<\/p>\n

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Build Action<\/strong><\/p>\n

Remember that scenes are pieces of physical story action. They take place in \u201cnow.\u201d They are not thoughts in the character\u2019s head, backstory, or description.<\/p>\n

When your scene is hitting on all cylinders, it should have a goal, a conflict, and a disaster, however small the events are. Say that your heroine, the home economics teacher, wants to impress the new art teacher by baking her favorite cookies for the school fundraiser, but she doesn\u2019t have any sugar. She goes to check her car out of the school lot, but the principal says no. She decides to experiment by using honey. The cookies are ruined. Now she\u2019s out of time.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the scene, the heroine had a big goal\u2014impressing the art teacher\u2014which she planned to reach by her small goal\u2014baking her favorite cookies. Baking the cookies was an attainable goal. But when she didn\u2019t attain it, and disaster ensues, the result is that the story is opened up to further complications.<\/p>\n

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Scenes Can Have Multiple Results<\/strong><\/p>\n

This scene, as small as it is, and however you play it\u2014for comedy or tragedy (well, okay, a small tragedy) does several things. It tells you something about the heroine by what she wants and the choices she makes. And it sets up the next scene. Now<\/em> what can our heroine do? The disaster in this scene propels the action to new goals and actions\u2014and new disasters.<\/p>\n

Your larger story, your book, depends on your ability to create many scenes where your heroine overcomes the short-term obstacles to her long-term goal. Writers usually do this by creating an antagonist, or villain, who constantly opposes the heroine. (There\u2019s that pesky principal again.) But your antagonist doesn\u2019t have to be a villain. It could be an animal (think of films such as Jaws<\/em> or Snakes on a Plane<\/em>) or the weather (Earthquake!<\/em>) or even a bacteria (Coma<\/em>). But something has to thwart your heroine as she tries to impress the art teacher, or your book will be awfully short.<\/p>\n

The disaster that your heroine encounters in her short-term goal should logically but unexpectedly set your character back. The art teacher was not only unimpressed by our heroine\u2019s cookies, he doesn\u2019t even like dessert. Now<\/em> what can our heroine do? Grill a steak. Wash out the art teacher\u2019s painting smock. Fix his car. But that<\/em> won\u2019t work because…<\/p>\n

Whatever it is, we won\u2019t have to make her sweat blood. That\u2019s our<\/em> job.<\/p>\n

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***<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Kay Keppler (www.kaykeppler.com<\/a>) is an author (Zero Gravity Outcasts<\/em>,\u00a0Betting on Hope<\/em>) and editor of fiction and nonfiction (Asylum Harbor, Pragmatic Guide to Sass<\/em>) who lives in northern California. Thanks to Ansen Dibell and his book\u00a0Plot<\/em>\u00a0(Writer\u2019s Digest Books) for help with this column. Contact her here or at kaykeppler AT yahoo.com to ask questions, suggest topics, or if you prefer, complain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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