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How to tell your story in four stages

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Telling a story requires taking your protagonist through a series of stages in which he resolves the central problem that set the tale in motion. Here’s a set of articles about those stages:
Parts of a plot
Inciting incident
Rising action
• Sidebar: Your main character must fail 
Climax
Falling Action/Denouement

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