PlotMagic©

PlotMagic will help you form the necessary elements needed for your basic plotline—quickly and easily, again and again. Play with ideas. Try different scenarios...substitute different answers in the blanks and see which appeals to you most, which is best 'workable' for your story.  PlotMagic helps you create a basic character, crisis, reaction, goal, motivation, and end result, and then packages them together into a basic plotline.

Before you begin, you may wish to scroll down and click "Show My Plotline!" to see how it works.  Then, after you've replaced the current text with your information, click "Show My Plotline!" again to create your own. When your window pops up, simply highlight your entire plotline, and Copy and Paste into your word processor or right click and select "print."

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Let's Create Your Plotline!

What's in a name?  Your main character should have a name that makes him (or her) unique and fits his personality as well as the genre in which you're writing.  Consider the character's age, too. You wouldn't want to name a 76 year old retired military General "Billy Bob." With that in mind, enter your main character's first name here:

Moving onto crisis.  This is the devastating event that happens, which totally rock's your character's world. Think of the most terrible thing that could happen to this character.  What could it be?  An accident, a bomb, arrested, disfigured, fired from job, made an awful mistake . . . ?  The very worst this character faces would be that:

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Cause and effect = reaction. What happens to your character internally/emotionally when faced with this terrible crisis?  Devastation, fear, paranoia, anger, destitution . . . ?  Something else?  When pushed to the breaking point, your character is:

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Next, your character must find a resolution to the sudden problem(s).  This resolution must NOT be easy, as the decision should be nearly as bad as the crisis.  To resolve the crisis, your character will need to:

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However, to accomplish this mission, your character must have intense motivation for carrying out this plan.  And, because your character believes so strongly this plan is just and worthy, that this plan is the only acceptable solution to obtaining a satisfying end result, this will become your character's goal and it will enable him (or her) to:

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