Unlock the Secret Formula: 6 Story Arcs That Will Keep Your Audience Glued to Every Word

Unlock the Secret Formula: 6 Story Arcs That Will Keep Your Audience Glued to Every Word


The 3 Best-selling Story Arcs

How Story Arcs Fit Dramatic Structure

Dramatic structure describes the elements of a story’s movement, and each of the above story arcs incorporates the dramatic structure. At The Write Practice, we identify six plot points, or elements of plot:

  1. Exposition
  2. Inciting Incident
  3. Rising Action/Progressive Complications
  4. Dilemma
  5. Climax
  6. Denouement

Note that many people include the falling action in their dramatic structure. I don’t include it because I believe the term “falling action” is misleading and really only appropriate for Freytag’s narrow definition of the tragic, Icarus structure, not a modern three-act story structure. You can read more about this in my falling action article.

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