Writing Custom Triggers in Act

Writing Custom Triggers in ActFor a beginner who's just beginning to learn how to write their own quest, it is important to consider the 'writing custom triggers in act' approach when working on your writing or quest. This article will help you work with the magic spell of 'act' to help you create these triggers to enable your quest to be very fast-paced and exciting.Just as in other areas of your writing, writing a Quest into a prompt action can have a big impact on the story. When a character begins the quest in a place where he has been, the reader expects him to end up there. Use the 'act' technique to motivate your characters to travel to that place at a time when they have nothing to do.For example, say that a person's neighbor is dying of a disease. The story could begin by this person being driven to visit his neighbor. The person would think that if he visits his neighbor on the day that his neighbor dies, then he will be doing the right thing and have done the right thing w hen his neighbor dies. What he might not realize is that by visiting his neighbor on a day that he doesn't need to be doing anything, he's just wasting his time.In your quest, your characters might be losing focus or staying up late to write something or find themselves going to see a movie or spending the night in a hotel room because they're thinking about the other things they're supposed to be doing. By writing a trigger in the act that states that a character has to visit his neighbor, the 'climax' to the story is set up for this character to overcome whatever, for whatever reason, he has been suffering from for the last several days.For a novel level quest, you can accomplish this with a single triggered event. Or, if you want to use the storytelling techniques that are best at book level, you can create a series of action steps to get your characters into the appropriate places. An example might be to start the 'act' of your story with a description of the person meeting his neighbor to hear him talk about his condition, followed by descriptions of his remaining time there, and finally a description of him leaving his neighbor's house.When writing the quest, or other story outline, you should keep in mind that the 'act' technique doesn't always provide enough focus on what is going on with your characters at any given time. You should find other ways to bring the spotlight to the individual parts of your story.In a short story, like your quest, you can choose to focus on a single scene, or on the effect that event has on one of your characters. For the example, to develop the character of the person who has to visit his neighbor, you can develop a scene involving him meeting his neighbor and making him aware of his condition, followed by scenes involving his remaining time there and meeting the friend who is driving him to the neighbor's house.When you're beginning to develop your writing in this manner, you'll find that your writing begins to have a bi g impact on the way your readers read and respond to the story. So give writing a quest a try!