Creating strong scenes is an essential skill for writers. Over the years, I’ve struggled with writing scenes but it was only when I began to study the structure of comic books and graphic novels that I saw a simple framework for structuring scenes. My first efforts were done in aContinue Reading

This is an updated version of my diagram on story structure. I’ve pulled together information on story structure from a number of different sources to identify aspects of story structure that are common to many of them. This chart includes information on story structure from Aristotle’s three-act structure, Freytag’s five-actContinue Reading