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A story is made out of meaningful stuff that happens. Each unit of meaningful stuff that happens is often referred to as a plot point. Here’s how to come up with them, before you consider fitting them into a structure.

• Imagine great scenes. See them in your mind and justify them later. Who are these people? Why are they doing what they are doing?
• Take a stack of fifty or so index cards and start imagining scenes. Whatever picture comes into your head. When something vivid comes to mind, jolt the idea on a card. The notation may be as brief as: bar fight with biker.
• Imagine memorable moments playing out on the big screen. What scenes would audiences talk about for years to come?
• What are the things that frighten you? What would you usually try to avoid?
• What events would provoke the greatest uncertainty in the reader?
• How does the setting impact the characters, and viceversa?
• Think of new events as actions taken by your hero or opponent.
• Create a situation in which your exceptional protagonist is in over their head, feels unprepared, is simply lost, or in any other way must admit to themselves that they’re not perfect.
• Think of what scenes you need in order to tell the story you have in mind.
• What would the other major characters be up to, unseen?
• Imagine scenes that add contrast to the motivations of characters, focusing on their differences regarding the actions, decisions, and attitudes. For example, two characters want to get control of an artifact, but while one character tries to negotiate their way to it, someone else intends to go in guns blazing.
• Imagine moments in which your characters will change, be forced to make a choice, be pushed into despair.
• Which plot points would be possible in this concept but almost in none others?
• Picture a movie poster for your story. What one key scene is pictured on it that embodies your concept?
• What iconic scene can you write in your story that will showcase the essence of the premise? How can you make it even bigger, more intense?
• What events would hurt the important characters’ prospects?
• Figure out what they want most, then put the things they fear most in their way.
• Think about active events the villain might cause to thwart the good guys’ goals.
• Can you put the object of desire of the scene’s driver in the room and have another character try to hide it?
• What plot point could make a character rethink their decisions and goals?
• What events would force the protagonist to deal with their inner issues?
• What events would force a character to confront and deal with the issue that keeps them from achieving their goal, the thing that’s holding them back?
• Brainstorm situations that force a character to confront their flaw.
• What scenes would expose a character’s deepest secrets and most guarded flaws?
• What scenes would force a character to confront their demons?
• Use your action scenes to challenge your hero’s fatal flaw. This way, it’s not just about the action, but how that action affects your hero.
• What scenes would show that a character is trying to overcome their flaws?
• Figure out plot points in which an antagonist attacks a weakness, forcing that character to deal with it.
• Which would be examples of how a character’s flaw limits their effectiveness?
• What kind of events would test a character’s, particularly the protagonist’s, flaw to the max, in order to open their eyes?
• Imagine an event in which a main character discovers, realizes, or is shown their inner need.