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Mini story beats

10 Jun 2021 2 minute read 0 comments justdaw

Remember these are the parts of any story.   Set up Inciting Incident Reaction Goal Conflict Climax Resolution (Option 1) Epilogue (Option 2) Set up (Option 2) Inciting Incident   You can use these both for analysis and for structuring your own wri...

Narrative structures option b

9 Jun 2021 1 minute read 2 comments justdaw

These are the basic parts of any story:   Set up Conflict Resolution   These is how you can unravel those parts:   Set up Inciting Incident Reaction Goal Conflict Climax Resolution (Option 1) Epilogue (Option 2) Set up (Option 2) Inciting Incident...

Narrative structures 2 of 2

7 Jun 2021 1 minute read 0 comments justdaw

Last time I went through the setup, the inciting Incident, the reaction, and the goal.  Now to continue let's go to:    The conflict: here's the moment or moments in which your characters will encounter opposition to their goals. This roadblock can a...

Narrative structures 1 of 2

6 Jun 2021 1 minute read 2 comments justdaw

The basic parts of the story are set up, conflict and resolution; of course a narrative structure can be broken down into more parts.    First, the setup. Atmosphere, world, early characterization, and so on will all go in here. Here you also have th...

Walker's Path Chapter 9 Late Night Snack

6 Jun 2021 13 minute read 0 comments KatherinesBrain

  The only thing I could think to do was to keep calling but I was having a hard time concentrating because the girls kept distracting me. A part of my mind was tugging at me saying, You're about to sleep with four girls! The combination of the two...

Meow - A (very) short science fiction story (ENG)/Miao – Un microracconto di fantascienza (ITA)

6 Jun 2021 2 minute read 2 comments lemming

Meow - A (very) short science fiction story (ENG) We will probably never know why they chose our small town to land and start the invasion of our planet.The aliens landed in the green field in which we were used to going to play football. It was a gr...

Narrative structure

5 Jun 2021 2 minute read 0 comments justdaw

At a base level any story can be broken down in three parts; these are the set up, the conflict and the resolution. Of course, this structure can be implemented in many different ways. By this I mean that the narrator can move the story beats around...

Chapter 2 - Mykel

1 Jun 2021 7 minute read 1 comment Dis0ri3nted

A tall, slender man walked down a dark dusty road in a small, abandoned town far from his home city of Ahlyntees. It was a warm summer night, and the wind blew in a cool breeze from the east, producing a broken, desolate lullaby as it softly rattled...

The hero - A (very) short science fiction story (ENG)/L’eroe – Un microracconto di fantascienza (ITA)

30 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments lemming

The hero - A (very) short science fiction story (ENG). Our hero was returning after fifty years of travels, adventures, and discoveries.He had been around the universe. He had encountered alien races and visited unknown worlds. He had reached the edg...

The Great Bitcoin Heist

28 May 2021 3 minute read 0 comments TyreP

This is a work of fiction! The year is 2050. In the years after The Great Inflation, which saw the United States Dollar crash and lose favor as the world currency. Many countries struggled to find a good replacement as no specific country had a stra...