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Tag: beginnings

Structuring a Story

November 23, 2015 A. B. Westrick 4 Comments

For months I’ve been trying to find the right opening for the novel I started in 2013, and I think…

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Filed under: arc, Austin Film Festival, back-story, backstory, beginnings, character, craft, hook, inciting incident, Kristin Swenson, manuscript, Michael Arndt, pace, pacing, plot, process, protagonist, revision, scenes, screenwriting, story, structure, Toy Story, writing

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