Weekly Prompt: Get In and Get Out
Build your story around its world
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3 min readNov 5, 2021
Welcome to the first weekly challenge for November, where the theme is
November Theme: All Hail the MICE!
A crafty month about the mechanics of trying and failing
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This month we’re focusing on four major MICE story types and how they help us structure conflict and struggle so that your story doesn’t feel contrived.
If you want to learn more about how this works and why the MICE Quotient is a very useful framework for writers to learn, then look at our major craft article for the month.
The Cliff Notes Version
The story begins when the characters leave a familiar place and enter a new one, and ends when they again return home.
All the struggles are about entering or leaving the place.
The central question is “Do they get in?” or “Do they get out?”
- Yes, but there’s a tiger inside….
- No, and the alarms sets off now…
