A problem a lot of writers have is being able to plot their points. Getting the characters and picking a setting is the easy part. Deciding how the moral of your story will be expressed and taught as well as deciding what events your protagonists will develop from is the hard part.
So here is my military acroynym for how to plot a point!
S- Start
E- End
M-Moral
I- Inbetween
So in other words, SEMI.
START- The first thing you must do is who your protagonist, antagonist, and supporting characters are. Name them, make profiles for them, and decide their flaws. The protagonist must have problems and deal with a conflict, otherwise there is no point for the book. Also, you have to pick your setting and create a conflict that intertwines the characters. Basically, you're making the roots of your story
END- Now you have to choose how you want your story to end. What do you want the reader to gain by the end of the story? How will your characters grow? Will the conflict be resolved? Will people die? What significant event ends the whole thing? Any special quotes or lines you want to end with?
MORAL- Every story needs a moral, something the reader will learn or gain from the story. If there's nothing you can gain by reading, then why read? A moral is basically a lesson. You need to figure out how this moral is incorporated in the story, how it's learned by the characters, and how the moral affects the character's actions.
INBETWEEN- After you've got all the other parts down, it's time to fill in the middle. Now you have to pick what events you want your character to participate in and all of the forces that go against your protagonist. How will the conflict be resolved? This is the part where you make the start connect to the finish. This is where you plot your points, in chronological order, and make the first step reach the next level.
Hopefully this Plotting a Point post will help you with your writing ^^
It's severely lacking in plot at this point. I have two main characters, a basic plot idea and that's it 