Advanced Synthesis
📋 What it is
The capstone: plan and draft a complete short story using every craft skill.
🗣️ Coach says
Everything comes together in one story: build a flawed character, set them a conflict, show it with vivid scenes and distinct dialogue, shape the plot to a climax, and revise it clean. Synthesis is orchestrating all the tools toward one satisfying tale.
🧠 Memory hook
Character + conflict + vivid scenes + dialogue + shaped plot + revision = a real story.
😂 Giggle
What do you call a narrative with no conflict?
A really boring story — also known as "Tuesday!"
😲 Whoa!
Every great novel is just these same craft tools, used together with care over many pages.
✅ Quick check: Planning a short story, name three craft elements you'd deliberately include.
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
Any three, e.g. a flawed character, a clear conflict, and vivid sensory description.
Synthesis combines multiple craft skills into one coherent story.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Plan a one-page story: a character, their want, a conflict, and how it might end.