Story structure

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There are many forms of story structure. Some authors prefer to take a minimalist approach that seems to have no structure. But here are a few types to learn and use or learn and forget.

MICE Quotient - milieu, idea, character, event

Seven Point Plot - many genre stories (good simple breakdown of a simple structure)

Three Act Structure - most commercial films (not explained)

Two Act Structure - common format for modern plays and musicals (theatre major never heard of this; not explained beyond this, only claimed to exist)

Journey of the Hero - Joseph Campbell (s/b Hero's Journey; not explained beyond this)

Narrative Structure of Fleming - James Bond adventure novels (suspect this existed before Fleming began writing in 1953; not explained beyond this)

Episodic - Common in television and serial comics (not explained beyond this)

Aristotle's Two Plots - Comedy and Tragedy (not explained beyond this)

Shakespeare's Seven Plots - love story, revenge story, mystery, history, etc. (only four of seven given: what are they all, who claims these as peculiarly Shakespeare's (certainly used by others and he never wrote about writing), and who cares?)

Robert Heinlein's Three Plots - boy meets girl, etc. (only one of three given; no clue to why these are Heinlein's and who claims they are.)

Nonlinear - Video games and other interactive media (no explanation beyond this)