Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, we address the paradox of showing genuine change in the third act: if true character is only revealed through action in conflict, then how do you demonstrate the completion of a character arc after the main conflict ends? Learn how to … More Lesson 27: Act 3 – Restoration
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, the protagonist reaches the final, and perhaps most difficult, threshold in the journey: the return to the ordinary world. Learn how and why characters must come home at the end of their arcs, how to use this moment most effectively for … More Lesson 26: Act 3 – Return
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, we arrive in the final act of the story, and discuss how and why the resolution should not just be an afterthought to your climax. Learn how to create a resolution that serves your reader, concludes your story’s plot lines satisfyingly, … More Lesson 25: Act 3 – Resolution
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, Act 2 comes to an explosive end, as the effects of the crisis decision ripple out into a final confrontation between protagonist and antagonist. Learn how to use the climax’s connection to the inciting incident to show character growth, deliver on … More Lesson 24: Act 2 – Climax
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, Trevor discusses what is perhaps the most important part of any story — the final crisis before the act 2 climax. Learn how to bring your characters to their lowest point using their inherent flaws and set the stage for an … More Lesson 23: Act 2 – Crisis
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, Trevor talks about what to do when you hit the halfway point in your story: how to use this moment to increase the effect of your crisis and climax, improve pacing in the second act, and give your plot a greater … More Lesson 22: Act 2 – Midpoint Marvels
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, Trevor talks plot reversals and revelations, how to twist your story without losing your reader, and ways to effectively set up big story payoffs in your own writing. For more info about the show, check out homesteadonthecorner.com Help support … More Lesson 21: Act 2 – Revelations and Reversals
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, Trevor talks about how to develop your supporting cast, create compelling subplots, and find the organic structure of your narrative. Learn how to humanize the bit parts of your stories and why it’s so important to treat characters like real people … More Lesson 20: Act 2 – Subplots and Somebodies
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, Trevor talks about the distinction between villains and antagonists, how to humanize them in the story, and ways to create memorable, necessary opponents for your protagonist. For more info about the show, check out homesteadonthecorner.com Help support the show at http://www.patreon.com/homesteadcorner … More Lesson 19: Act 2 – The Big Bad
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, Trevor discussed how to use the tools of effective world building to create the extraordinary world of the second act. Learn how to utilize your story’s premise to inform your design, raise the stakes, and create a memorable world your reader … More Lesson 18: Act 2 – Whole New World
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