Unlock the Secret Formula: 6 Story Arcs That Will Keep Your Audience Glued to Every Word
Maintaining the status quo won’t engage readers. It’s the rise and fall of characters’ fortunes that interests us more than anything else.
This change, the rise and fall in a story, can be plotted on a graph to form a curve shape line.
And when you graph them, you begin to see patterns across all forms of story.
Here is a simple graph of a dramatic arc that Kurt Vonnnegut describes as “Man in a Hole”:
The x-axis of the graph describes the chronology of the narrative structure, and the y-axis describes the positive or negative value the main character experiences.
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