outline

So, I like stumbled onto Emma Coat's Story Shots blog at the beginning of the summer and referencing it in the last post, I was prompted to scroll a bit. In a post she put up called "Writing as a Drawing Tool" I came across this little snippet of awesome...
 

 A general guideline I use for writing out an outline is that each of the following gets a paragraph:

• the concept of the story
• who the main character is
• what is her place in the world
• what goes wrong (inciting incident)
• how does she try to fix it (act 1 break)
• brief description of complications (act 2)
• what really goes wrong (midpoint)
• low point
• resolution (act 3)