Writing Cheat Sheet

“In six seconds, you’ll hate me. But in six months, you’ll be a better writer. From this point forward—at least for the next half year—you may not use “thought” verbs."­
These include: Thinks, Knows, Unders­tands, Realizes, Believes, Wants, Remembers, Imagines, Desires, and a hundred others you love to use.
The list should also include: Loves and Hates. And it should include: Is and Has, but we’ll get to those later.

1. Inciting Incident
 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­Causal
 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­Coi­nci­dence
2. Progre­ssive Compli­cation
 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­Active Turning Point
 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­Rev­elatory Turning Point
3. Crisis
 ­ ­ ­ ­ The Best Bad choice
 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­Irr­eco­nci­lable goods
4. Climax
5. Resolution

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