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third person limited pov

Third Person Limited Point of View

Picking a perspective is like choosing your weapon before a gladiator match; it limits and defines your style of approach....

Third person omniscient

Third Person Omniscient Point of View

Given our lack of omniscience in the land of the living, writing can offer us a liberating chance to experience...

Theme

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...

rising action

Rising Action | Definitions, Examples, & Your Story Weapon

Rising action refers to the series of events that lead from a story’s inciting incident to the climax. In this...

Inciting Incident

Inciting Incident | Definition, Examples, & Your Story Weapon

With storytelling, if your reader isn’t engaged within the first few chapters, you run the risk of losing their attention....

Falling Action

Falling Action | Definition, Examples, & Your Story Weapon

What happens after a story’s climactic moment? What comes after the protagonist wins the girl, or defeats the bully, or...

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The Value of an Outline

The Value of an Outline

What’s the point of an outline? Whether consciously or not, every writer is in search of a process. A lot...

Outlining The Dramatic Question

Outlining: The Dramatic Question

Your characters are a function of the plot, archetypes that constellate around the dramatic question. Story is essentially an argument...

what happens next

What Happens Next?

The first step in creating a fully alive story is imagining the world. This simply means envisioning your characters in...