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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Creative Writing: Structuring those Stories

In class, we've discussed the traditional story structure: Exposition (including setting and conflict), Rising Action (plot points leading to the climax), Climax (the moment in the story where the conflict is directly addressed), Falling Action, and Resolution.

An additional way to look at story structure is explained here. It doesn't contradict any of the above information...it just looks at things in a different way!

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