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Once you’ve come up with a list of meaningful plot points that should happen in your story, the Acts structure (generally three, but could be strengthened by turning it into five) is a proven method to organize those plot points in a way that makes the story more cohesive, and usually building up in tension.

The following list of questions is meant to ensure that the story progresses appropriately.

• Lay out all the plot points you have and order them in a way that the obstacles and setbacks escalate in difficulty.
• Do the anxiety and conflict levels progress in the story? If not, consider that something is wrong it its structure.
• How do the complications endanger your protagonist’s cause progressively, providing an escalating sense of dramatic tension?
• If you have determined the act climaxes, how do you make sure each one is stronger than the one before it?
• Does the story have amazing set pieces? For every event that you consider a set piece in your story, ask the following: Is the scene concept big enough? Are the scene’s stakes high enough? Is the location interesting and unusual? Is there a deadline and/or escalation of conflict?
• Regarding the impact of the progressing events, think of ways you can show how the plot points hurt the protagonist, and possibly other important main characters.
• Once the story delves into its traditional second act (second, third, and fourth acts in a five-act structure), consider what happens in it as concrete attacks from one side to defeat the other.
• How does the second act keep throwing the protagonist into an alien world, at least in a metaphorical sense? Ideally, every event corresponding to the traditional second act should represent the protagonist confronting something alien to his life before the events of this story.