Aha Moment
A character’s insight or sudden understanding reveals something important about the
character or the plot.
Look for the moment when the writer seems to interrupt the action, or perhaps puts a
character off alone to think and some realization occurs to him or her.
… I suddenly realized that …
…At that moment, I finally understood …
Ask: “Why might this realization be important? How might this change things?”
What words told you
this was going to be
an AHA Moment?
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What realization
came to the
character’s mind?
How is this realization
likely to be important in
the story?
“All of a sudden I
knew what I had to
do”
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Crash can’t let this
kid pass him.
I think he’s going to
confront this kid he’s
referred to as a “funnylooking dorky little runt.”
He’s going to make him
stop and humiliate him
“The thought came to
me…”
The grandparents of
Crash and Webb
might have liked each
other.