I always like to spend every autumn studying in-depth the three most basic aspects of plot structure:
HOOK
DEVELOPMENT
CLIMAX
There are lots of folks in the online writing community who are limbering up their writing muscles at this time of year. And I have found that the simpler and more straight-forward the lessons in craft, the better we learn them.
Also, I had a teacher once who told me it takes 14 iterations for a lesson to sink into the human brain. So after 14 years of revisiting these three fundamentals. . .you all should be pretty darn adept.
So let’s start backward—as we always do.
Because what’s the fun of doing it the normal way?