Nanowrimo Week 2: Team, Training, Tests

Here’s a simple way to remember the basics of Act II: Part 1—the second quarter of your book or script:

Team, Training, TestsTHE TEAM is the friends, relatives, colleagues, and/or experts that will help the hero/ine get their DESIRE.

The hero/ine’s TEAM will be introduced in the second act if they haven’t already been introduced in Act I—and Act II:1 is where we’ll get to know and love them.

In fact there is often an entire sequence you could call ASSEMBLING THE TEAM, which often comes early in...