Story structure

Learn how the Hook grabs readers from the very first page with an irresistible question that piques their curiosity and keeps them reading.

Learn how to use the Three-Act structure to create riveting stories, and see expert examples of the Three-Act structure in use!

Every novel must include these seven key story elements. Get these right and you can write a story readers love.

✨New Series✨ Story Structure Basics First up is the classic five-act story structure: 1. Exposition: introduce the characters, provide some backstory, and end with an inciting incident that disrupts their daily life. 2. Rising Action: Conflict begins to rise & character starts to pursue their goal. 3. Climax: The character(s) thinks they’ve achieved their goal, tension is at it’s highest, can be a major turning point in the plot. 4. Falling Action: The character(s) must face consequences and…

6 story structures, complete with story structure charts to help you create an original plot and outline your next novel.

Kurt Vonnegut published fourteen novels over a period of fifty years as well as numerous short stories, plays and works of non-fiction.

Aristotle, about 2,500 years ago invented this 3 act structure in his book ‘Poetics’ and is often credited by screenwriting how-to authors with having originated three-act structure because of his observation that a tragedy must have a beginning, middle and an end.

A story structure represented as a diagram.