Figuring out your plot structure is essential for your story's success. Even if you have an exciting idea for a story, great characters, and a memorable setting, you still need to put your protagonist through events that havehigh and escalating stakes,and structure them for maximum effect. If...
Historical Note: One of the earliest writers to talk about this structure was Gustav Freytag, the German author who wrote in the middle of the 19th century. His basic structure became known asFreytag’s Pyramid, and he was the first to talk about many of the five elements of plot we disc...
Stories serve various purposes—they entertain through novels and films, inform through news, and teach valuable lessons through parables and fairy tales. When writing a story to engage and captivate readers, its definition becomes more nuanced. Let’s explore the essential elements that make a stor...
you should certainly beawareof your story’s possible structure. You should be on the watch for the major plot points and developments that arise as you learn about your story’s exciting moments. But don’t try to impose
astrolabes continue to fascinate technophiles, science historians and amateur sky watchers. Many educators use the tool in their classrooms to teach about the celestial sphere and how to plot and predict a variety of astronomical phenomena, including sunrises/sunsets, moonrises/moonsets, star transits...
There are two reasons for using inductive sermon outlines. First, it provides a structure to capture the listener’s attention and take them on journey to what you want to teach them. Second, it provides a structure to teach the narratives in Scripture. Narratives tell a story and the ...
In this reinforcement learning tutorial, I’ll show how we can use PyTorch to teach a reinforcement learning neural network how to play Flappy Bird. But first, we’ll need to cover a number of building blocks. Machine learning algorithms can roughly be divided into two parts: Traditional learn...
It’s impossible to figure out how to outline any one aspect of your story in isolation. Instead, learn 3 ways to “bob and weave” from one to the next. Part 7:How to Structure Your Story’s Outline Once you’ve discovered a general idea of your plot, you can use these 3 steps ...
Learn how to plot a graph and how to graph from the data. Discover line graphs and pie graphs. See examples of constructing line graphs and pie...
How to structure an anecdote Typically, anecdotes are structured just like any other narrative, with a beginning, middle, and end. In the beginning, you introduce your characters and themes, in the middle you present the action or conflict of the story, and in the end you conclude the actio...