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

Examples of Rags to Riches story arcs:

  • Disney’s Tangled
  • A Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • Matilda by Roald Dahl
  • Holes by Louis Sachar
  • The BFG by Roald Dahl
  • My Fair Lady (film) / Pygmalion (play) by George Bernard Shaw
  • The Great American Dream / Progress

2. Riches to Rags (fall)

As with Rags to Riches, in a Riches to Rags story, there is just one movement. However, this movement is in the opposite direction—a fall, rather than a rise.

Riches to rags plot diagra

In a Riches to Rags story, the protagonist begins the plot in a fairly high place, but slowly their life devolves until by the end, their life is a ruin of its former self.

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