Editing Research/Fiction Writing/Story Beats (section)

=== Story Grid: Five Commandments of Storytelling ===
Source: [https://storygrid.com/five-commandments-of-storytelling/ Story Grid]
Story Grid defines five core structural components that operate from small units to whole stories:
# '''Inciting Incident''' — destabilizes the protagonist and creates a goal.
# '''Turning Point / Progressive Complication''' — attempts fail or new information changes the situation.
# '''Crisis''' — a real dilemma between incompatible choices, often a “best bad choice” or “irreconcilable goods” choice.
# '''Climax''' — the active answer to the crisis question.
# '''Resolution''' — shows the consequence and value shift.
Revision use:
* For every scene, identify the value at stake: life/death, love/hate, truth/lie, freedom/slavery, honor/shame, success/failure, etc.
* Check whether the value changes from beginning to end.
* If a scene lacks a crisis choice, it may be exposition disguised as scene.
* If the climax is not an action/decision, the scene may feel inert.
* If the resolution does not show consequence, the reader may not feel the beat land.
This is one of the strongest manuscript-improvement frameworks because it works at chapter and scene scale, not just whole-book scale.