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STEP 1 - You write your 4 Act Story Outline.
STEP 2 - You write your 12 Chapter PlotPoint Outline.
STEP 3 - You write your 3 Act Per Chapter Outline.

STEP 1: I call my 4 Act Structure 2P2C or PPCC. That just stands for:

ACT 1 - IS THE PROBLEM.
ACT 2 - IS THE PLAN.
ACT 3 - IS THE CHAOS AND
ACT 4 - IS THE CURE--

PPCC - 2P2C. Very easy to remember.

STEP 2: In The 1st Quarter of your Story, That I call The Problem of Fire, your 3 chapters are:

1. THE CATALYST
2. THE MAIN STORY AND
3. THE BIG EVENT

In The 2ND Quarter of your Story, That I call The Plan of Earth, your 3 chapters are:

4. THE DECISION
5. THE CHARACTER GROWTH AND
6. THE POINT OF NO RETURN

In The 3RD Quarter of your Story, That I call The Chaos of Air, your 3 chapters are:

7. THE HIGHER STAKES
8. THE CRISIS BEGINS AND
9. THE ALL IS LOST

In The 4TH and Final Quarter of your Story, That I call The Cure of Water, your 3 chapters are:

10. THE RESOLUTION BEGINS
11. THE SHOWDOWN AND
12. THE AFTERWARD

SO ALL TOGETHER, WHEN YOU WRITE DOWN YOUR 12 CHAPTER OUTLINE, IT READS AS:

1. THE CATALYST
2. THE MAIN STORY
3. THE BIG EVENT
4. THE DECISION
5. THE CHARACTER GROWTH
6. THE POINT OF NO RETURN
7. THE HIGHER STAKES
8. THE CRISIS BEGINS
9. THE ALL IS LOST
10. THE RESOLUTION BEGINS
11. THE SHOWDOWN AND
12. THE AFTERWARD

STEP 3: You write your 3 Act Per Chapter Outline. All that means is that you structure each chapter of your 12 chapter outline, to the 3 act structure of:

1- Beginning
2- Middle
3- End

So the 1st 3 pages of each chapter represent the Beginning of your story arc, for that chapter. The next 4 pages of each chapter represent the Middle of your story arc, for that chapter, and the last 3 pages of each chapter represent the End of your story arc, for that chapter.

I’ll just give you one example, cause we don’t have time to go over all 12 examples for all 12 chapters. So in Chapter one of our pirate story, We’ll say that

Act 1 (The first 3 Pages) = The Problem for Chapter 1
Act 2 (The next 4 Pages) = The Plan for Chapter 1
Act 3 (The last 3 Pages) = The Chaos for Chapter 1

You don’t need to have a section for the act 4 of the Cure in each chapter, because the cure ends the conflict (which ends your story) and the conflict in your story doesn’t end until the final chapter.

So for our Pirate Story, an example of this 3 Act Per Chapter Breakdown in Chapter 1 could be:

Chapter 1’s Act 1 = Our hero’s drunken ship captain takes the ship off course into uncharted territory.

Chapter 1’s Act 2 = Our hero takes over the reigns to navigate the ship back on track to their in land destination, to bring their minimal treasure findings to the orphanage in their home land.

Chapter 1’s Act 3 = Our hero notices the hint of giant monsters lurking beneath the seas, so he warns everyone to prepare to fight, and when the monsters attack, our hero’s fight plan works, they defeat the sea monsters and when he cuts the head off of the king sea monster, millions of gold coins and treasure that the sea monster swallowed over the years of eating ships and pirates, all burst out of the sea monsters belly, filling the ship with gold. The pirate ship of bad guys that sat by watching the whole thing, assuming our hero and his friends would all die, see the treasure-- from their ship, spying on them with their eye glass telescope-- and suddenly they want to be friends with our good guys-- because they want that treasure.

I could go on, but that would take forever and hopefully you get the idea. If you’d like more specific help with a certain section of your script writing and story telling projects, send me a video response or comment, or if you have any advice or feedback about how these tips helped you out, please feel free to send me a video response or wall comment. I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks! Muah!