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

For example, in an adventure story (Man in the Hole arc) set in space like the film Gravity, where the core value is physiological survival, you would measure the arc based on this life vs. death metric.

Gravity plot diagram

Let’s break this arc down, analyzing the rise and fall of the life vs. death value throughout the key moments in the story:

***Spoiler Alert***

Exposition

Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and astronaut Matt Kowalksi (George Clooney) are on a spacewalk on the Hubble Space Telescope.

Life vs. Death value measure: stable.

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