The 7-Point Story Structure

In a well-structured story, this decision inexorably brings the character face to face with their worst fear: the obstacle that is going to force them to face up to their underlying flaw.

All stories have a beginning, middle, and an end. There’s a defining point in which the beginning turns into the middle and the middle into the end. Field, a leading screenwriting teacher, calls these plot points. A plot point is defined as any incident,