Narrative structure is how you tell your story. It’s the order you organise events in, to take your audience and their feelings on a journey. A lot of stories ...

The classic three act story structure — a setting and character setup followed by a confrontation that ends in a resolution — is popular among writers in all media. But ditching this convention, ...

“Despite huge changes in the technology of news, the structure of a story today doesn’t look hugely different from one in, say, 1932.” At the risk of sounding self-serving (you’ll see why below), ...

If you hear the words “once upon a time,” you might guess that you’re hearing the beginning of a child’s fairy tale. And if you hear the words “and they all lived happily ever after,” you know you’ve ...

This blog post originally appeared on Film Independent‘s blog and appears here with the permission of the author. The following is a true story. I did a script coaching session for someone I’ll call ...