How to: Use a Beat Sheet to Design a Story

Whether you’re writing a screenplay, a novel or a short story, designing a story that works and pulls the audience along is harder than it looks. One way to avoid getting lost along the way is to lay out a planned course through the world of your story with a beat sheet. This article will help you impose order on the chaos of plots, themes, characters and settings, and design stories that work.

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