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How to Improve your Outline
So, you’ve come up with a logline for your story and proceeded to generate an outline from it (see earlier posts). How do you go about improving your outline, prior to commencing the actual writing of your script or novel? … Continue reading
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Tagged climax, crisis, first turning point, Inciting Incident, midpoint, Outline, resolution, second-turning point, story-structure
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Exploring the Story Network I
Understanding story structure involves different stages of learning. The first stage is to identify, name, and understand the function of each narrative component. We learn that a turning point, for example, spins the story in a different direction, and we … Continue reading
Posted in Story Structure
Tagged first turning point, Inciting Incident, mwriter, narrative, screenwriter, story, structure, writing
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The Nuts and Bolts of Story Structure
For sometime now, I’ve been posting articles about such narrative elements as the introduction scene, the inciting incident, the first and second turning points, the first and second pinches, the midpoint, realisation, decision, action, obligatory, and denouement scenes – in … Continue reading