Stage 5: Crossing the Threshold

At some point at the end of the first act, your story may showcase a moment where your protagonist needs to Cross the Threshold between their Ordinary World and the Special World they will be experiencing as their inner or outer journey begins.

The hero leaves their ordinary world for the first time and crosses the threshold into adventure.

Here I offer three ways Crossing the Threshold affects your story.
1. Shifts Your Story Into Gear
2. Introduces the Differences Between the Ordinary World and the Special World to Come
3. Begins Your Protagonist's Character Arc

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I have three examples from movies clips that illustrate Stage 5.

In Cast Away when things go wrong that he steps out of his normal work routine and into the Special World he's about to experience — and it is vastly different from what he is used to.

In The Lord of the Rings, Frodo and Sam literally cross the threshold between the world they've known, The Shire, to a world they are unfamiliar with — beyond The Shire.

In Stand By Me, the boys walk onto the train tracks leading away from their hometown of Castle Rock — and it's both a literal and metaphorical threshold they are crossing.


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