CLOSAT and 7-point Short Story Structure

Image with CLOSAT Cards

I’ve finally got to do another round of CLOSAT. If you want to see what it’s about, check out this post. Use the suggestions however you want. You don’t even have to link back to this page or give me any credit. That said, feel free to comment the link to what you wrote below.

In case you can’t see the image:

Character: A tall slender woman who loves to write

Location: An Apartment Complex

Object: A pack of Cocaine

Situation: Mounting Debt with no end in sight

Action: Searching for Ideas on the Internet

Theme: Desire to escape

 

The 7-point Short Story Structure:

  1. A Character
  2. Is in a situation
  3. With a problem
  4. They try to solve the problem
  5. But fail, making it worse
  6. They make a final attempt to solve it which may succeed or fail
  7. The consequence is not as expected.

May Character Month 18-23th

May is Character Month

18: Elizabeth has some pride in talking herself out of a situation, only to second guess herself later. She is proud of her kids, but she doesn’t talk about them much, because that might mean admitting the possibility that they were casualties of the Third wave pandemic or the riots.

19: Elizabeth is older, so she mellowed out some, but her #1 deadly sin is wrath. It still crops up once in a while, but thanks to her self-defense training, she’s learned to have some control.

20: Not a character quote per se, but a scene…

     “It’s not a big deal…” I paused, realizing the habitual phrase was far from the truth. “Actually, it is a big deal. I mean, two weeks ago, I was just Elizabeth Weinstein; Sub-par author, conspiracy theorist, defunct YouTuber, crunching numbers so that I can expand my properties, and arguing logistics with my rivals. Yet…” My voice trailed off, and I waited until my mind could catch up. “All of that… Everything I thought was important pales in comparison to what I have to do.” My eyes met Roger’s, and I shook my head. “Something important, and I have no clue what it is yet!” I tossed my bag into the trunk of the car and slammed the hood shut, only to realize that too late, my phone was still in my pack.

     “You won’t need it.” Josias circled around me, grabbed my shoulders, and glanced around before looking in into my eyes. “You’re right. You do have something important to do.”

– from: Elizabeth: Kidnapped

21: Elizabeth does like to be alone and until she meets the others, she actively avoids people unless it’s business.

22: Elizabeth thought it was talking herself out of trouble, but then she met the others – and found out she can look into the beyond and see a few seconds of the timeline.

23: She can make friends easily. It’s keeping them through initiating contact that’s hard.