Short story writing examples

How to create a story structure.

Every story needs a plot: an exciting series of events.

Most stories follow a simple structure that is called the story mountain, but obviously all stories don't have to have a mountain in them.

The foot of the mountain is your opening where you introduce your hero and start setting the scene.

Ah, a knight - a perfect character for your story.

Your next stage takes you up thestory mountain. It's called the build up.

Here, you build up the main body of the story.

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A plot will always be engaging if you add in a conflict, a fight or a mystery to solve.

It seems that the evil wizard in the castle on the other side of the mountain has kidnapped the heir to the throne. What a rascal!

Our knight must do something about this.

Now you're at the top of the mountain where the story peaks and our characters encounter a major problem, obstacle or dilemma.

A dragon!

I would consider that a fairly big obstacle and the evil wizard has an army as well. Goodness me. How is the knight ever going to get past them?

Is our knight going to

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