Snowflake Step 2

Step 2) Take another hour and expand that sentence to a full paragraph describing the story setup, major disasters, and ending of the novel. This is the analog of the second stage of the snowflake. I like to structure a story as "three disasters plus an ending". Each of the disasters takes a quarter of the book to develop and the ending takes the final quarter. I don't know if this is the ideal structure, it's just my personal taste.


Step 2)

Into the Woods again.

I’m going to take a run at Into the Woods again. I was unhappy with the way it turned sideway during Nano.

Once I had a better understanding of the nature of the setting’s pagan magic everything changed.

And while I’m at it, I’m going to noodle the Snowflake Method and the Perfect Scene.

Step 1) Take an hour and write a one-sentence summary of your novel This is the big picture, the analog of that big starting triangle in the snowflake picture.


Step 1)

A pagan mage binds herself to Christian noble in a dangerous mission to an Inquisition stronghold.