Whether you plan ahead or improvise, create the structure to hold your story and amplify its strengths. By studying and practicing different story structure methods, you’ll discover or possibly invent the right structure to deliver your tale. There will be in-class exercises, journaling, and between-session work on your story.

The module will follow an 8-session structure as shown below:

Outline	8-Session Structure
Week 1	Session 1: Starting with Scenes
	Session 2: Basic structures and the Plots they would support
Week 2	Session 3: Basic Shapes and the Plots they would support
	Session 4: Story Check-In
Week 3	Session 5: Basic Character Arcs and the Plots they would support
	Session 6: Complex Character Arcs and the Plots they would support
Week 4	Session 7: Leveraging the MICE quotient in short stories
	Session 8: Story & Structure Check-In