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Story Structures

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Seven-Point Story Structure

Outline your book using an innovative planning system that builds your novel backwards. Best for plotters and thrillers, mysteries, and speculative fiction.

Story Structures – Board Template

Freytag's Pyramid

Outline your book using storytelling most ancient pyramid for a rise and fall. Best for downfall arcs in any genre — and protagonists with a fatal flaw that ends up being their undoing.

Story Structures – Board Template

Fichtean Curve

Outline your book using a structure built for tension — a Crisis card that you can duplicate as needed. Best for thrillers, horror, and page-turners.

Story Structures – Board Template

Hero's Journey

Outline your book using storytelling's famous monomyth for transformation. Best for stories rich in mentor figures, thresholds, and symbolic death and rebirth.

Story Structures – Board Template

3-Act Structure

Outline your book using storytelling's most popular map for a beginning, middle, and end. Flexible enough for almost any genre, this is a strong default if you're choosing your first structure.

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