The Beat SheetA Flexible Template for your Story

The first section allows you to create a targeted direction and narrative flow for your story. Fill these in, and
youll find specific scene ideas popping into your head.
Thats next.
Each blank line in the template represents a scene. Fill them in as your story takes form with either a) a
singular narrative mission for the scene (example: hero meets love interest for first time), and/or b) the narrative content of the scene (example: Bob and Shirley run into each other at the reunion).
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Theme(s):______________________________________________________________________________________
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Through-line:___________________________________________________________________________________
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Part OneSetup:
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Part 2Response:
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Part 3Attack:
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Part 4Resolution:
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