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Plot Development — Plot Basics: Stakes, Turns, Escalation
A plot stays alive when each turn raises what can be lost, and escalating stakes keep the middle of a story structurally alive.

A plot stays alive when each turn raises what can be lost, and escalating stakes keep the middle of a story structurally alive.

Momentum, not talent, decides whether a first draft survives. Here is a month-by-month way to protect it.