How to Plot a Good Story — An Ultimate Guide for Beginners
Boost the quality of your stories with plotting
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How often do you feel like you have a great story but when you are done writing it, the feedback isn’t as positive as you expected? It sucks so bad, and I would know.
When I first started telling stories, I wanted so badly to kill this sucky feeling. I wanted to create the kind of stories I loved, those plotted with such expert precision that they held your attention from the first scene to the last and delivered a terrific emotional experience at the end. Thanks to this desire, I became obsessed with answering the question of how to plot a good story. I read countless books on the topic and tinkered around with my own stories (over 20 in a span of 4 years).
After all this time, I believe how to plot a good story is still one of the core storytelling questions that, once answered, unlocks the door to masterful storytelling so that you no longer have to deal with the sucky feeling.
Knowledge of plotting gives you the tools you need to turn your story idea into a sequence of cause-and-effects (also known as scenes) that maximizes your story’s emotional power…
