Writing Tip: When 3-Act Structure is 4-Act Structure

“Per Aristotle, while we may still think of a story having three acts — Beginning, Middle, End — at a psychological level in the narrative Internal World, there is a four-act structure at work.”

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At a Willamette Writers Conference in Portland, Oregon during which I gave four presentations, I also moderated a keynote Q&A with novelist and screenwriter Peter Craig. During…