Does your novel draft feel a little lopsided?
Is your pacing
off, or does it seem like the story takes ages to get started? Maybe the tension slackens off in the middle, or you feel like something big needs to happen – you’re just not sure what (or when).
Here’s the good
news. Most writers will have an innate grasp of the three act story structure. We’ve all read plenty of stories, after all—and seen stories on the screen. (Movies tend to follow a very precise story structure, often down to the minute.)
So your story is probably already coming close – but your sense that something is “off” suggests the structure needs a bit of tweaking.
We’re going to go through the most basic story structure out there, the Three Act Structure, then dig in a bit deeper with some specific plot points that fit within that structure.
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