If you are visually-oriented and producing a novel, take a look at different ways to chart your story — with plot diagrams and more. Story charts and plot diagrams can get the creativity train moving, so take a tour of the multiple-act framework, the wheel, and more.
Other posts in this series will cover other ways to visualize your story.
Multiple Acts
The three-act story structure predominates, but novelists also use the four-act, seven-act, and more variations on this theme
Visuals in the Round
The Hero’s Journey, aka the Monomyth
” In narratology and comparative mythology, the monomyth, or the hero’s journey, is the common template of a broad category of tales and lore that involves a hero who goes on an adventure, and in a decisive crisis wins a victory, and then comes home changed or transformed.[1] “
Stretch Your Brain
Freytag’s Pyramid
“A diagram of dramatic structure, one which shows complication and emotional tension rising like one side of a pyramid toward its apex, which represents the climax of action. Once the climax is over, the descending side of the pyramid depicts the decrease in tension and complication as the drama reaches its conclusion and denouement.“