Pacing: How Timing Matters to Your Story
Learn how to avoid common pacing mistakes in your stories.
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Narrative Writing Assignment: A Rescue Story
An exciting narrative writing assignment for middle or high school students.
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The Heroic Journey, Part 17: The First Reversal
At about the 20 percent point of the story, corresponding to the end of Act I in the three-act drama structure, there’s the First Reversal. Something happens to transform the Hero’s new situation into a new desire and a change of plans. This will set the Hero’s external motivation for the rest of the novel, and the action is underway.
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The Heroic Journey 14: The Call to Adventure
The Call to Adventure, which happens at about the 10 percent point in movies and anywhere from the 10 to 25 percent point in novels, which can be more loosely structured than movies, is what jars the Hero out of his everyday world and ultimately gets him to cross the Threshold into the Mythological Woods and Initiation and onto the Journey proper.
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