How to Build a Tri-Fail Cycle

When I'm stuck in the middle and I'm trying to build a tri-fail cycle, one of the first things that I look at is what is the awesome ending I have in mind? What is the protagonist going to do? How is it going to work out? And if you look at Indiana Jones throughout that movie, well, let's start with the end. His goal, the end in mind, is get the thing back to the museum. Okay. The actual end result is the government takes it. So in the end, it's failure. Yes.