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Description:
Not unlike bread dough, stories need plenty of rising action and structure...otherwise they can fall pretty flat.
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Thank you We sneak in Oh When reading a book
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sometimes this story seems to be moving along effortlessly but
- 00:17
there was actual effort involved in making it seem that
- 00:20
way Believe it or not that story didn't just get
- 00:22
to be great By accident The rightest spent a lot
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of blood sweat and tears mostly tears working to structure
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a rock solid plop What about all the books that
- 00:31
don't seem effortless Well they probably didn't get published let's
- 00:34
think back to freytag pyramid the formula of how stories
- 00:37
air structured although each part is important in its own
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way the bulk of the story will be it's rising
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action all the stuff that takes the story from its
- 00:44
beginning to its climax This part of the story isn't
- 00:47
just one event but a whole bunch of different events
- 00:50
that need to build on top of each other making
- 00:53
connections along the way If the rising action is well
- 00:56
written the reader will ride that wave all the way
- 00:58
to the climax If it isn't the book might become
- 01:01
a paperweight Ok example time say you're reading a story
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about a knight and his horse and the exposition it's
- 01:08
a saddler said that night really Loves his horse like
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he's seriously needs to get some other friends unfortunately for
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the night The inciting incident of the story is that
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the horse is stolen by a dragon Ah horse stealing
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dragon what they exist Hey this is my story The
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story has come to the rising action and there are
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lots of ways it could go from here May be
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the night chases after the dragon fighting his way through
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a hunted woodland to reach to be slayer Or maybe
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the night meets an old man who's an expert on
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dragons and together they trained to face his mortal enemy
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Although these two options are very different they both involve
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events that build on each other They'll probably both result
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in the poor knight getting burdened with chris But what
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are you going to do it's a dragon dude just 00:01:46.827 --> [endTime] get another horse maybe a puppy
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