NaNo Prep 2024

Assignment # 4 Plot: Beginning (Where Does Your Story Start)

Plot: Beginning (Where does your start) ▼

(1.) Describe your protagonist's life in the beginning (Ordinary World or Stasis) of the story. Brainstorm ways you could establish normality through action and dialog to avoid boring your reader.
(2) Describe the inciting incident or trigger (Call to Adventure) that prompts your protagonist(s) to embark on this story's journey (whether literal or metaphorical) and face the conflict. This incident could be large and obvious like a death or disaster, or it could be seemingly insignificant, such as an offhand comment by another character.

Final Premise:
After years of enduring a tumultuous abusive marriage, Kelly finds herself in a desperate struggle for survival when a violent confrontation with her husband ends in his death. Fleeing the scene, she seeks refuge in a small coastal town, hoping to rebuild her life away from the shadows of her past. As Kelly grapples with her guilt and fear of being discovered, she forms an unexpected bond with the town's quirky residents, who have secrets of their own. As she helps them confront their own demons, Kelly must decide whether to conceal her past or confront it head-on, all while a persistent detective begins to piece together the truth behind her brothers death.:

Act One - The Begining

1. Opening Image:(1%)Single scene beat
         1. Introduce Kelly, who lives in a small country town and is trapped in an abusive marriage and her husband, Jaden.

Theme Stated: (5%) Single Scene Beat
         To be stated in setup. Will come from Martin, her friend, telling her that "she can't run from herself forever."

2. Setup: (1%-10%)Multiple scenes beats
         1. Show daily struggles: illustrate her life, highlighting the emotional and physical abuse she endures.
2. Show her getting off work late, goes to Pica-Paus for a drink with friends, brings home KFC
3. House dark, beginning to snow, goes inside and is attacked by Jayden.

4. Catalyst Inciting Incident (10%):1. Show fight- she grabs the knife and stabs Jayden, believes he is dead. Flees back to Pica-Paus for help.
         2. Jayden's father, uncle and sister, all law authorities of Lockwood—no going back.

5. Debate:(10%-20%)Multiple scenes beats
         1. Introduce Martin, Sheryl-Ray and Dannie
2. Dannie to check house out- finds no body.
3. either in morgue or hospital, Danny thinks
4. Need to get rid of mustang , Dannie and Martin take it and runs it off Sacrifice Cliff into The Yellowstone River.
5. Sheryl-Ray calls Jacko for ss#, ID. DL, birth certificate, moonbump.
6. Jacko finds name in obits. Says it'll take 3 days.

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