A car salesman with no cars.

Over the past week, I have been trying to buy a new car. This story actually goes back much further – like a year ago when I first started my search. It has now become a pressing issue. I guess the car industry is still playing catch up after the pandemic so this is my live tweet on my recent experience of trying to buy a car when there are no cars to buy.

” The non-refundable deposit is for all my hard work I have done over the past week” Car salesman

Using the story arc:

1. Stasis-Everyday Life

Need a new car, don’t really want to buy a new car. Leave it until the last possible moment.

2. Trigger-Event outside the control of the protagonist (Can be positive or negative)

Limited turbo engine vehicles available to buy, no real negotiation happening.

3. Quest-Rising Action (Result of the trigger)

Get what you can take.

4. Surprises-Unexpected Events (+ve or -ve) (Commonly Challenges) (Don’t let protagonist complete his/her Quest)

Stressful car salesman tactics.

5. Critical Choice-Decision is key to the Story, Reveals the protagonist’s true character.

Fills out the paperwork to buy the car.

6. Climax-Decision leads to the climax, highest level of tension for reader.

8.49% interest rate!

7. Reversal-Outcome of the Critical Choice and the Climax, results in changes for the characters, should be logical and based on the events leading up to it

Leaves the dealership. Still looking for a new vehicle.

8. Resolution-Protagonist reaches a new stasis, characters should have evolved learning important life lessons through their experiences.

Read my live tweet here.