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# Novel plot
## Premise
- The story in one sentence
- Genre and tone
- What readers have not seen before
## Characters
- Hero, and what they want
- What they need but do not know
- Antagonist, and their reason
- Ally who tests the hero
## World
- Place and time
- Rules that limit the hero
- Mood of the setting
## Act one
- Ordinary life, shown in one scene
- Inciting incident
- The choice that starts the journey
## Act two
- Rising obstacles
- Midpoint reversal
- Lowest point
## Act three
- Climax
- How the hero has changed
- Final image
## Threads
- Relationship subplot
- A secret waiting to come out
## Theme
- The question the story asks
- An image that keeps returning