Elementral Elements

I just now discovered something that makes me very, very happy.

Dum-dum elements.

I am assuming that you know the basic elements in writting:

setting,

theme,

characters,

 plot,

  style.

All books, movies, and graphic novels have them. Well, whenever I used them to write my story, I would always struggle to think of intelligible answer, one that would look good on a test, not one that looks good in a book. Therefore when I found David Schwabauer and his dum-dum elements, I was beyond thrilled. Here are his:

Someone To Care About

Something To Want

Something To Dread

Something To Suffer

Something To Learn

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1. Someone To Care About is your Star, your Hero, your Other You. You’ll notice it doesn’t say Someone You Like, that is because you may not like the main character, and also, which person is closer to you, the person you like, or the person you care about? I’m guessing you thought care about.  This enables the audience to become closer to the main character, to want what they want, which draw them into the story.

2. Something To Want is the story goal, what makes your character keep going, it makes a photographic image in your readers mind of what they think will happen at the end of the book. This is what makes the end the end, and also makes the end climatic. You may or may not give your hero their Stroy Goal.

3. Something To Dread is the punishment of the story, it can be if the main character does get what they want, making it dangerous, or it what would happen if your star doesn’t get the story goal, like in Harry Potter, If Harry doesn’t get Voldie dead, it’s the end of the world. It could have nothing to do with the Story Goal. Just make your Hero scared of something.

4.Something To Suffer should really be somethingS to suffer, considering your Other You must be miserable at numerous times.  They can’t win anything too easily or it will be unrealistic, annoying, and just flat out bad writting. So spit on your character.

5.Something To Learn is the least important, in the sense of the NIP doesn’t have to have it, but It will make your novel memorial, unlike the books that are popular for a week then are never heard of again, in which the theme is making-out is fun. Those are fluffy, needless books, make yours outstanding.