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Narrative Architect is a powerful tool that helps writers create captivating and well-structured stories. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned writer, this app provides you with expert guidance on various story structures, including classic story structure, hero's journey, three-act structure, story circle, Fichtean curve, and seven-point story structure. With step-by-step instructions and examples, Narrative Architect assists you in crafting intriguing plotlines, developing compelling characters, and building meaningful arcs. Unlock the secrets of storytelling and captivate your readers with this ultimate writing companion. Start shaping your narratives today!
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Classic story structure:
**Exposition:** This first part establishes a protagonist's normal life and greater desires, and usually culminates in the inciting incident.
**Rising action:** The protagonist pursues their new goal and is tested along the way.
**Climax:** Our hero achieves their goal or so they think!
**Falling action:** The hero now must deal with the consequences of achieving their goal.
**Resolution:** The conclusion tying together the plot, character arcs, and themes.
Hero’s Journey structure:
**The Ordinary World:** The hero’s everyday life is established.
**The Call of Adventure:** Otherwise known as the inciting incident.
**Refusal of the Call:** For a moment, the hero is reluctant to take on the challenge.
**Meeting the Mentor:** Our hero meets someone who prepares them for what lies ahead perhaps a parental figure, a teacher, a wizard, or a wise hermit.
**Crossing the First Threshold:** The hero steps out of their comfort zone and enters a ‘new world.’
**Tests, Allies, Enemies:** Our protagonist faces new challenges and maybe picks up some new friends. Think of Dorothy on the Yellow Brick Road.
**Approach to the Inmost Cave:** The hero gets close to their goal. Luke Skywalker reaches the Death Star.
**The Ordeal:** The hero meets (and overcomes) their greatest challenge yet.
**Reward:** The hero obtains something important they were after, and victory is in sight.
**The Road Back:** The hero realizes that achieving their goal is not the final hurdle. In fact, ‘seizing the sword’ may have made things worse for them.
**Resurrection:** The hero faces their final challenge a climactic test that hinges on everything they’ve learned over their journey.
**Return with the Elixir:** Having triumphed, our protagonist returns to their old life. Dorothy returns to Kansas; Iron Man holds a press conference to blow his own trumpet.
Three Act structure:
- **Act 1: Setup**
**Exposition:** The status quo or ‘ordinary world’ is established.
**Inciting Incident:** An event that sets the story in motion.
**Plot Point One:** The protagonist decides to tackle the challenge head-on. She ‘crosses the threshold,’ and the story is now truly moving.
- **Act 2: Confrontation**
**Rising Action:** The story's true stakes become clear; our hero grows familiar with her ‘new world’ and has her first encounters with some enemies and allies. (see Tests, Allies, Enemies)
**Midpoint:** An event that upends the protagonist’s mission. (Similar to the climax in Freytag’s pyramid)
**Plot Point Two:** In the wake of the disorienting midpoint, the protagonist is tested and fails. Her ability to succeed is now in doubt.
- **Act 3: Resolution**
**Pre Climax:** The night is darkest before dawn. The protagonist must pull herself together and choose between decisive action and failure.
**Climax:** She faces off against her antagonist one last time. Will she prevail?
**Denouement:** All loose ends are tied up. The reader discovers the consequences of the climax. A new status quo is established.
Story Circle structure:
**A character is in a zone of comfort:** This is the establishment of the status quo.
**But they want something:** This 'want' could be something long-standing and brought to the fore by an inciting incident.
**They enter an unfamiliar situation:** The protagonist must do something new in their pursuit of the thing they want.
**Adapt to it:** Faced with some challenges, they struggle then begin to succeed.
**Get what they wanted:** Usually a false victory.
**Pay a heavy price for it:** They realize that what they 'wanted' wasn't what they 'needed'.
**Then return to their familiar situation:** armed with a new truth.
**Having changed:** For better or worse.
Fichtean Curve structure:
- **Rising Action**
**Inciting incident:** The novel begins with the line: “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” Within the first three paragraphs, Marilyn realizes that her daughter Lydia is missing. Thus, readers are thrown straight into rising action as Marilyn anxiously searches all the usual places Lydia might be found.
**First crisis:** Lydia’s family is informed her body was found in a nearby lake. From this first crisis's climax, the narrative flashes back to provide exposition and details of the family’s history.
**Second crisis:** In flashbacks, we discover that, 11 years prior, Marilyn abandoned her family to resume her undergraduate studies. In her absence, the family begins to fall apart. Marilyn learns she is pregnant and is forced to return home. Having lost her opportunity for further education, she places the pressure of academic success on her children.
**Third crisis:** Back in the present, Lydia’s father, James, is cheating on Marilyn. The police decide to close the investigation, ruling Lydia’s death a suicide. This results in a massive argument between her parents, and James leaves to stay with the “other woman.”
**Fourth crisis:** Flashback to the day Lydia died. From her perspective, we see that she’s misunderstood by her parents. She mourns her brother’s impending departure for college, leaving her as the sole focus of her parents’ pressure. Isolated, she tries to seduce a friend who rejects her advances and explains he’s in love with her brother.
- **Climax**
Lydia takes a boat into the lake in the middle of the night determined to overcome her fear of water and reclaim control of her life. Lydia jumps off the boat, into the water, and out of this life. As in a classical tragedy, this moment is both devastating and inevitable.
- **Falling Action**
Some level of resolution is achieved, and readers get to at least glimpse the “new norm” for the characters. Lydia’s family lean on one another in their grief. While they may never be able to make their amends with Lydia, they can learn from her death. Not all of the loose ends are tied off, but readers infer the family is on the long road to recovery.
Seven-Point Story structure:
**The Hook:** Draw readers in by explaining the protagonist’s current situation. Their state of being at the beginning of the novel should be in direct contrast to what it will be at the end of the novel.
**Plot Point 1:** Whether it’s a person, an idea, an inciting incident, or something else there should be a "Call to Adventure" of sorts that sets the narrative and character development in motion.
**Pinch Point 1:** Things can’t be all sunshine and roses for your protagonist. Something should go wrong here that applies pressure to the main character, forcing them to step up and solve the problem.
**Midpoint:** A “Turning Point” wherein the main character changes from a passive force to an active force in the story. Whatever the narrative’s main conflict is, the protagonist decides to start meeting it head-on.
**Pinch Point 2:** The second pinch point involves another blow to the protagonist things go even more awry than they did during the first pinch point. This might involve the passing of a mentor, the failure of a plan, the reveal of a traitor, etc.
**Plot Point 2:** After the calamity of Pinch Point 2, the protagonist learns that they’ve actually had the key to solving the conflict the whole time.
**Resolution:** The story’s primary conflict is resolved and the character goes through the final bit of development necessary to transform them from who they were at the start of the novel.
I'll give you a guideline and advice for plotting
Choose your Plot structure below:
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Classic story structure
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Hero’s Journey structure
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Three Act structure
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Story Circle structure
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Fichtean Curve structure
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Seven-Point Story structure
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I'll give you a guideline and advice for plotting
Choose your Plot structure below:
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Classic story structure
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Hero’s Journey structure
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Three Act structure
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Story Circle structure
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Fichtean Curve structure
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Seven-Point Story structure USER: 5 ASSISTANT: Great! You have chosen the Fichtean Curve structure. Here is a step-by-step guideline and advice for plotting your story using the Fichtean Curve structure:
1. Rising Action:
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Start your story with an attention-grabbing inciting incident that sets the story in motion. This incident should create a sense of urgency or conflict for your protagonist.
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Introduce the first crisis, where the protagonist is faced with a major challenge or obstacle that they must overcome.
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Use flashbacks or exposition to provide background information and details about the protagonist's past or the history of the story.
2. Climax:
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Build up to a climactic moment where the tension and conflict reach their peak. This could be a pivotal event or decision that has a profound impact on the protagonist's life.
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Make this moment both devastating and inevitable, like a classical tragedy.
3. Falling Action:
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Show some level of resolution or recovery for the characters after the climactic event.
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Demonstrate how the characters are coping with the aftermath and learning from the experiences they have gone through.
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Tie up loose ends and provide closure for the story, while still leaving some room for interpretation or future possibilities.
Advice for using the Fichtean Curve structure:
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Focus on creating a sense of rising tension and conflict throughout the story. Each crisis or obstacle should escalate the stakes and push the protagonist further out of their comfort zone.
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Use flashbacks or non-linear storytelling techniques to provide context and reveal important information about the characters and their motivations.
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Make sure the climactic moment is emotionally impactful and leaves a lasting impression on the reader.
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Show the consequences and aftermath of the climactic event, allowing the characters to grow and change as a result.
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Use the falling action to provide a sense of resolution and closure, while still leaving some room for ambiguity or future possibilities.
Remember, these are just guidelines and you can adapt them to fit your story and writing style. Happy plotting!