A cracking good story idea requires five critical elements.
Until you have all five, you'll struggle to plot. You'll write a few scenes and run out of gas. You'll feel like the story just isn't going anywhere. And that's because it isn't. It can't. A story won't do what a story needs to do without all five elements.However, once you develop these things, your story will suddenly roar to life. Brown cuts through all the confusion and clearly...