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No Dikkering Around

Different Ways to Structure a Story

Try one and all

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Scott Dikkers
Mar 06, 2024
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Most novelists and screenwriters struggle to hook readers and keep them interested.

The number one problem script readers and coaches see in stories is a certain point, somewhere between the end of Act I and just after it, when they realize they don’t care about the characters or what’s going to happen. The story is dead.

One way to fix this problem is wi…

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