Today we continue looking at story structure: this time, with what I call the Ugly Duckling Structure.
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The Prompt
Watch the video and write an Ugly Duckling story
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The ‘life-changing moment’ comes in the middle of this story
Balance out every challenge from before that moment, with a similar, but different moment afterwards. Show us how the character (or their circumstances) have changed now.
This story might have to be longer than a Cinderella-type story. Sketch it out, if you don’t have time to do it justice today.
Read this post, which talks more about the Ugly Duckling structure.
Don’t forget to leave a comment or post in the community and tell us how you’re getting on. What have you learned this month, so far?
I’m still catching up on the last couple of days before diving headlong into the final prompt. If only i could get to the posting as efficiently as writing…but I’m here now with my planning post for the Ugly Duckling structure prompt.
This one was tricky to fit with a 100 word fan fiction story, but I like the result. As for my Kifo Island novel-in-the-making, I skipped the actual moment of transition (the mirror, I suppose), since I really don’t know what that will be, yet. Instead, I focused on two moments taken from either side.
Loved this prompt!
https://shanjeniah.blog/2017/05/31/the-ugly-duckling-for-stad-may-day-twenty-nine/