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?