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THE WRITE STRUCTURE

"STRUCTURE STRUCTURE STRUCTURE.” John Wilder, screenwriter

Part 1: What is your story about.

1. Premise: Write your story as a one sentence premise. (For help, use our novel idea worksheet.)

2. Value: What value is your story about? (More on this article.) Options: Life vs. Death, Life vs. a
Fate Worse than Death, Love vs. Hate, Accomplishment vs. Failure, Maturity vs. Naiveté, Good vs. Evil.

3. 3 Plots: Great books often contain 2 or 3 Plots. Now that you know your main plot’s value,
what are the values of your internal plot and subplot?

1.Main Plot:

2.Internal Plot:

3.Subplot:

Arc: What is the shape of your story? Draw your story based on the rise and fall of your story
value?

Story Value

Opposite
Part 2: Write your story in six sentences.

1. Exposition: Introduce your characters and the setting.

2. Inciting Incident: What event or choice begins the movement of the story up or down, setting
values in conflict?

3. Rising Action/Progressive Complications: List the things that make the story more complicated as
it builds to a crisis.

4. Dilemma (Crisis): What difficult choice is the protagonist forced to make? It must be between two
good things or two bad things. List the two options.

Example: _____________ (protagonist) must make the difficult choice between _____________________
vs. _____________________.

5. Climax: The character’s choice plays out, leading to a climactic conflict between the two values.

6. Denouement: How is the protagonist’s world different after the events of the story?

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Part 3: Break your story into three acts. Write each act in six sentences.

Act 1
Exposition:

Inciting Incident:

Rising Action/Progressive Complications:

Dilemma:

Climax:

Denouement:

Act 2
Exposition:

Inciting Incident:

Rising Action/Progressive Complications:

Dilemma:

Climax:

Denouement:

Act 3
Exposition:

Inciting Incident:

Rising Action/Progressive Complications:

Dilemma:

Climax:

Denouement:

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Part 4: Write each scene in six sentences.

Scene #1 - Event:
Exposition:

Inciting Incident:

Rising Action/Progressive Complications:

Dilemma:

Climax:

Denouement:

Scene #2 - Event:
Exposition:

Inciting Incident:

Rising Action/Progressive Complications:

Dilemma:

Climax:

Denouement:

Scene #3 - Event:
Exposition:

Inciting Incident:

Rising Action/Progressive Complications:

Dilemma:

Climax:

Denouement:

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Scene #4 - Event:
Exposition:

Inciting Incident:

Rising Action/Progressive Complications:

Dilemma:

Climax:

Denouement:

Scene #5 - Event:
Exposition:

Inciting Incident:

Rising Action/Progressive Complications:

Dilemma:

Climax:

Denouement:

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Additional Scene Worksheets: Print as many copies as you need.

Scene #__ - Event:


Exposition:

Inciting Incident:

Rising Action/Progressive Complications:

Dilemma:

Climax:

Denouement:

Scene #__ - Event:


Exposition:

Inciting Incident:

Rising Action/Progressive Complications:

Dilemma:

Climax:

Denouement:

Scene #__ - Event:


Exposition:

Inciting Incident:

Rising Action/Progressive Complications:

Dilemma:

Climax:

Denouement:

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