When you think about it, every story, if it is a good one, has four parts. It has a beginning that sets the stage, telling you who the main characters are and how the story gets rolling. Then something goes wrong. There is conflict that makes the story interesting. The main part of most stories tells how that conflict gets corrected, how the wrong gets fixed. That solution brings a final resolution—writers call it the denouement—where the parts of the plot resolve themselves in a satisfying ending (“They lived happily ever after”). Maybe you’ve noticed that the basic parts of a good story
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