“Despite huge changes in the technology of news, the structure of a story today doesn’t look hugely different from one in, say, 1932.” At the risk of sounding self-serving (you’ll see why below), ...

Rising action is the piece of a story that leads up to the most exciting part—the climax. It consists of: Rising action in a plot follows the exposition and is instigated by the inciting incident.

I think I was 7 or 8-years-old when I first read Harris & Me by Gary Paulson. Well, in truth, my mom likely read it to me but strangely enough, that’s not what I remember. It is the first time that I ...