How to structure a story

Answer these 20 questions

How do you structure a story? Whether you’re writing a novel, short story or script, story questions are a powerful and practical way to learn story structure.

To create your story structure, answer the 20 story questions in the PDF at the bottom of this page. You’ll take a character you’ve created and put them in a specific location with a specific problem.

Don’t simply work through all 20 from beginning to end though. Start with the 7 basic story questions first. I explain the 7 basic story questions in this video:

Download a PDF of all Twenty Story Questions here. Let me know how you get on.

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