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Theme | Definition, Examples & Your Story Weapon
Theme is a way of making a series of events which are personal to the protagonist universally relatable to a …
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Rising Action | Definitions, Examples & Your Secret Weapon
Rising action refers to the series of events that lead from the story’s inciting incident to the climax. In this …
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Inciting Incident | Definition, Examples & Your Secret Weapon
When it comes to storytelling, if a reader isn’t engaged within the first 20 or 30 pages, you run the …
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Falling Action | Definition, Examples & Your Secret Weapon
What happens after a story’s climactic moment – after the protagonist wins the girl, or confronts the bully, or triumphs …
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Exponential Growth – Don’t Quit Before the Miracle
“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.” – Albert Allen Bartlett, physicist …
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Climax in Literature | Definitions, Examples & Your Secret Weapon
The climax. This is the moment your reader has been waiting for. They’ve spent hours immersed in your story, falling …
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