Sometimes there is nothing better than the classics. Today we examine Freytag's Pyramid, the most common plot structure in novel writing.

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German novelist Gustav Freytag created a simple plot diagram known as Freytag's Pyramid to show dramatic structure.

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Freytag Pyramid

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When it comes to being a more well-rounded writer, it always pays to learn as many writing methods as possible. One such method is Freytag’s Pyramid. It is a dramatic structure that was developed by…

Writing Conflict: Freytag's Pyramid and the Shape of Narrative, Investigation, Freewriting, and Poetics

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In 1863 Gustov Freytag, first known as a playwright and later a novelist, published Die Technik des Dramas. (Released in English much later as Freytag’s Technique of the Drama: An Exposition of Dramatic Composition and Art.) While his novels reflected some of the ugliness and turbulence of the time in which he was writing, the […]