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ELA 5: How Does Structure Build Plot? 202 Views


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Not unlike bread dough, stories need plenty of rising action and structure...otherwise they can fall pretty flat.

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Thank you We sneak in Oh When reading a book

00:14

sometimes this story seems to be moving along effortlessly but

00:17

there was actual effort involved in making it seem that

00:20

way Believe it or not that story didn't just get

00:22

to be great By accident The rightest spent a lot

00:25

of blood sweat and tears mostly tears working to structure

00:28

a rock solid plop What about all the books that

00:31

don't seem effortless Well they probably didn't get published let's

00:34

think back to freytag pyramid the formula of how stories

00:37

air structured although each part is important in its own

00:40

way the bulk of the story will be it's rising

00:42

action all the stuff that takes the story from its

00:44

beginning to its climax This part of the story isn't

00:47

just one event but a whole bunch of different events

00:50

that need to build on top of each other making

00:53

connections along the way If the rising action is well

00:56

written the reader will ride that wave all the way

00:58

to the climax If it isn't the book might become

01:01

a paperweight Ok example time say you're reading a story

01:05

about a knight and his horse and the exposition it's

01:08

a saddler said that night really Loves his horse like

01:10

he's seriously needs to get some other friends unfortunately for

01:13

the night The inciting incident of the story is that

01:15

the horse is stolen by a dragon Ah horse stealing

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dragon what they exist Hey this is my story The

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story has come to the rising action and there are

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lots of ways it could go from here May be

01:26

the night chases after the dragon fighting his way through

01:28

a hunted woodland to reach to be slayer Or maybe

01:31

the night meets an old man who's an expert on

01:33

dragons and together they trained to face his mortal enemy

01:36

Although these two options are very different they both involve

01:39

events that build on each other They'll probably both result

01:42

in the poor knight getting burdened with chris But what

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are you going to do it's a dragon dude just 00:01:46.827 --> [endTime] get another horse maybe a puppy

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