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Narrative Story Planning

Use the story arc to organise your ideas. There is no single correct story: make choices that fit together and build towards a satisfying ending.

Story structure and language

1.Match each story-arc stage with the description that best explains its role.

Exposition
Rising action
Climax
Falling action
Resolution

Develops the central problem and increases tension
Brings the main problem to an ending
Shows what follows the turning point
Introduces the characters and the story’s setting
The key turning point or most intense moment

2.Which words or phrases can help a reader follow when events happen in a story? Select all that apply.

Later that evening
Meanwhile
Eventually
First
Although
For example

Build your story plan

Invent a character and a setting, then make each part of your plot connect logically to the next.

3.Plan your exposition: give your main character a name and describe where and when the story begins.

4.Plan the rising action: what problem does your character face, and what two events make the situation more tense?

5.Describe the climax of your story. What important choice, discovery, or confrontation changes what happens next?

6.What happens just after the climax? Describe one event in the falling action.

7.Plan the resolution: how will the main problem be dealt with, and what will your character understand or feel at the end?

8.Choose a feeling for your character at the beginning, during the main problem, at the climax, and at the end. Make at least one feeling change as the story develops.

9.Choose three precise words or phrases that help a reader imagine your setting.

Draft and review

Use your plan to begin drafting. Try to make your opening establish a mood and give the reader a reason to keep reading.

10.Write the opening of your story in three or more sentences. Introduce a character or place, and include a detail that creates curiosity or sets the mood.

Time: shortly afterwards, at dusk, the next morning, meanwhile, at last. Setting: windswept, crowded, silent, weather-beaten, luminous. Feelings: uneasy, curious, resolute, astonished, relieved.

11.Extension: add a subplot or a second setting to your plan. Explain how it links to the main problem or changes the main character’s choices.

12.Review your plan. Select each statement that is true of your current draft plan.