The Dome Structure

Plot driven stories have, when plotted on a graph, a dome like structure, with excitement (or something like it) on the vertical axisand time onthehorizontal axis.This isknown as the‘Story Arc’.

Character driven stories have a different, more detailed arc (not described here), which revolves around the character’s need to change.

These are the main elementsyou willneed when working out astory arc for a plot driven story:

Beginning. This comes at the bottom left of the dome and is basically a...