Plot Worksheet
Exposition:
Setting:
Tone:
Characters:
Other:
Foreshadowing:
Symbols:
Inciting Force: What gets this character to do something in the first place?
Conflict: What’s going to be the main thing the character comes up against?
Complication/Rising Action: What series of events happens that build toward the crisis/turning point?
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Crisis/turning Point:
Protagonist receives new information:
Accepts information but must decide what to do about it:
Takes action on this information:
Resolution and Aftermath: (How do you want the story to end? How does your protagonist change?) e.g. in
“Welding with Children,” Bruton cleans up his house and land (resolution); his youngest grandchild, Nu Nu,
calls him Da-Da, and they decide to hang a tire swing in the willow tree (aftermath).