Brainstorming in the Treehouse

Today, way up in the treehouse at a tiny picnic table,I got to spend one of my first brainstorming sessionswith my younger sisters for their NaNoWriMo projects.

I listened to their ideas, gave my advice on a few gingerbread people’s names, and then it was time to talk about story plot.

I skipped the whole fancy three-act-four-plot-point-inciting-event-and-climax explanation since they’ll probably be writing shorter stories (and I’m no good at explaining it), and cut to the chase.

Every story...