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Course 391 · Lesson 02

Advanced Creative Writing: Character, Setting, and the Short Story

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The Five Essential Elements of Every Story

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Every story — whether it is a short story, a narrative essay, a fiction, a non-fiction, or a travel journal — contains five essential elements. They are not decoration. They are the structure. Without all five working together, no story can hold a reader from beginning to end.

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