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To understand the Quest form of your story you need only
identify your protagonist's Object of Desire.

Bring in the Central Plot's Inciting Incident as soon as
possible... but not until the moment is ripe.

Part 2 Done.
A CONTROLLING IDEA may be expressed in a single sentence describing how and why life undergoes change from one condition of existence at the beginning to another at the end.
The Controlling Idea has two components: Value plus Cause.

"Hemingway was fascinated with the question of how to face death.
After he witnessed the suicide of his father, it became the central theme, not only of his writing, but of his life. He chased death in war, in sport, on safari, until finally, putting a shotgun in his mouth, he found it."

"The source of all clichés can be traced to one thing and one thing alone: The writer does not know the world of his story."

"Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as
slavishly following the commercial imperative. Write only what you
believe."

beat, scene, sequence, arc, story.
Archplot, minipolt, antiplot