Now you need to start a preliminary structure of your story. First, identify where your protagonist is starting, and where he will finish. A very rough story structure can be described using the story goal and five general points of the story flow:
Beginning -- describes "ordinary world" plus a change; Story Goal -- overall goal that the protagonist wants to achieve by the end of the story Door -- point where the protagonist embarks on a "journey" to achieve the story goal; Journey -- long middle section of the story; Slide -- point where the action changes again, and the story moves onto a course of resolution; Resolution -- the end of the story |
