List Scenes

Consider building your story by listing a handful of key scenes that will get most of your story across.  Then build each scene as a kind of mini-story.

Review Scene Elements

Scenes typically have key characteristics that give them coherence.  These should be used as a guide, but not a straitjacket to help you move your story along. 

These element include:

1.  Work like a mini-story with a local crisis and actions to deal with it
2. Move the protagonists desire–>need journey, aka plot
3. Take place at one time and one place, so contained
4. May open with larger issue, then narrow down to a single take-away, like an upside down triangle

Create Scenes One at a Time

Create each scene to address one clean and critical story problem that allows the main character to grow or learn, and thus move to the next level.

Link Scenes

Scenes should be linked in a structural way. This is not always chronological. It could be based on time travel back and forth in time, or with flashbacks that help clarify a problem, or through a physical journey. Use the network, branching structure of Twine to help you make interesting connections in your story that a linear story would lack.