It has been a long since Kyle accepted he would never get to mate. That's why, when Stan started courting him, he thought he was just being nice, not that he was head over heels in love with him.
I'll show you details a step-by-step method for planning and refining stories using John Truby's character-focused structure, Donald Maass's emotional depth, Eric Bork's idea generation, and Stuart Horwitz's flexible architecture. Applied to the author's coming-of-age novel: Truby outlines arcs (teens' desires vs. self-discovery); Maass adds conflict (friendship, first love, parent-child clashes); Bork sparks concepts (experimental school life); Horwitz cohesively structures drafts.
