Short Story in an Evening
by WaffleKnight Creative Production › Deep Drafting
85 minutes 7 Steps
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Premise
- A character who wants something
- What stands in their way
- Where it might end (it's allowed to change)
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Freewrite the character
10 minutesWrite about them in any form: what they fear, what's in their pockets, what they'd never say out loud.
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Sketch five beats
10 minutesOpening image, inciting moment, complication, crisis and closing image. One line each.
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Draft the first half
30 minutesThrough to the complication.
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Break
5 minutes -
Draft the second half
30 minutesThrough the crisis to the closing image.
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Finish
- Give it a working title
- Note the one thing you'll fix first in revision
- Save and back it up