Story Structure: A Lost Art?

If you’ve written anything of length, you no doubt understand the debate between “planners” and “pantsers.” On one hand, who wants their outline to dictate every beat, sentence, paragraph, and more?

On the other hand, who wants to suffer the unbelievably painful realization in the last few chapters that their story is DOA due to a lack of planning?

Whatever side you’re on, there’s an important lesson here.Â

Story structure is still vital to the story.Â

No arguing allowed.

Boom. Done. Bottom line.

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