The Plot Skeleton: a practical, bare boned approach that works for children's books, short stories, novels, screenplays, and storytellers

If you were sitting in a room with twenty other people, at first glance you might think they are quite different. After all, people come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. But if you were to put on x-ray glasses and look at those same peoples skeletons, unless one of them had an abnormality, they would appear almost identical. In the same way, short stories, novels, screen plays, childrens books, and epic poetry may appear to be vastly different, but they all tell stories. And because they do, unless they have an abnormality, they have the same skeleton--the same structure supporting the story. Veteran novelist and teacher Angela Hunt explains how to structure a story--any story--in simple terms, carefully illustrating all you need to know in order to craft a wonderful novel, screenplay, childrens book, or epic poem of your own.