Last week, voters found photo #5, the small town, most inspiring, with number #3, the run down house, as runner up. So the primary settings for our YA story are a small town and the poor side of that town. Now you need to choose a plot for these YA characters.
By plot, I mean the engine of the story. What drives the main character? In his book 20 Master Plots: And How to Build Them, Roland B. Tobias describes twenty major plots. I’ll choose six.
- Romance
- Riddle (Mystery)
- Quest (Does not mean fantasy. It can be any story in which the main character is searching for something.)
- Romance
- Coming of age
- Revenge
Of course you can combine plots. Like amateur sleuths fall in love while searching for a missing will, but I’d like you to vote for the main plot. Which do you choose?
Coming of age mystery.
Coming of age quest, and an added mystery would be cool!