Our plots are anchored in reality. Even when building new worlds or mythical creatures, the grounding factor in his writing is that they have to be believable. To this end, his plots are meticulously crafted.
Most plots he writes follow the tried and tested format of character introduction, conflict introduction, escalation, resolution, and conclusion. But this is not cast in stone. Depending on the story and the audience, the sequence could be altered for impact.
Sample Deliverable.
Plot Outline
Genre: Medical Thriller
Tropes: Female MC/Crime/Detective/Medical
Elevator pitch: A doctor striped of her license solves deaths that go unclassified as murders.
MC: Woman, late thirties brilliant physician and surgeon, widowed. Charlene Marcus. Her husband died a year earlier. The death was ruled natural. No children. A dog. Siberian Husky. She lost her license when she performed an unauthorized autopsy on her husband. She suspected foul play. She lives in a three story colonial in the old part of the city overlooking the Charles River.
Book 1
Setting: Cambridge. A suburb of Boston, MA.
[It’s the end of summer and the storms are frequent. It’s late at night and outside, lighting cracks, and thunder rolls.]
Charlene Marcus is reviewing the business affairs of her late husband, looking for information that could lead her to a clue about her husband's death. Sitting in her private study in the attic she had converted, she hears faint noises between the sounds of crashing thunder outside.
[Insert thrilling scene of an intruder here]
She gets to her living room to find a package on the table. Wet footsteps show the path of the intruder coming in, then leaving.
The package begins to ring. She removes the phone from the package. Along with a folder in a format she recognizes. It’s the ME’s report of one late Magus Chaucer.
She answers the call.