The five-act structure is a plot formula that divides a story into five sections: the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. From these classical explorations comes our ...

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The exposition is the facts of your story. It's all the facts about the characterisation, the history, the society, the physical setting and so on. You only need to include the facts that the audience ...