Answer each of the following with a brief paragraph
1.
Exposition: What setting and background is necessary to drive this story?
2.
Rising Action: what actions will lead my characters into action, begin
questioning, what will be going through their mind
3.
Conflict: What conflict are my characters trying to resolve or discover?
why is this important?
4.
Climax: What is the most crucial turning point or decision in the story?
5.
Falling Action / resolution: what goes through the characters minds after the climactic
decision, what conversation or action follows this? what do they realize?
6.
Theme: what idea about human behavior should
your readers have after reading your story?
