Here are a five important questions you, as a writer of fiction, can ask yourself to help you in making story structure your own.

There’s nothing incorrect in using confrontation to create conflict in fiction. But to understand conflict as only confrontation is too narrow a definition.

Learn how to increase the health and effectiveness of the writer’s inner critic while diminishing toxic effects.

Here are this writer’s New Year reflections, focusing on six “gifts” I gave myself and why I believe they were profoundly life-changing.

The two halves of the Climactic Moment require the story’s final sequence to offer two very specific beats: Sacrifice and Victory/Failure.

The two halves of the Third Plot Point work together to create a scene arc that moves from the False Victory to the Low Moment.

The halves of the Midpoint are unique in story structure in that they mark the dividing line between the two halves of the entire story arc.

The First Plot Point is often referred to as a threshold, a visual metaphor representing the native two-sidedness of all structural beats.

A series examining the two important “halves” in each of story structure’s major beats, beginning with the Inciting Event in the First Act.