What’s the best structure for blog posts, intranet stories & more?
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How to craft the feature story structure The ‘stacked boxes’ format outperforms the pyramid For most articles, use the “stacked boxes” format — aka the feature-style story structure. Instead of sliding down the pyramid, give your readers a beginning, middle and end. |
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Try these 5 other types of structure in writing Beyond news & features to diamonds & totem poles Beyond the pyramid: Sometimes the news pyramid and feature-style boxes aren’t enough. Here are some other structures to try. |
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Plus: 18 writing templates to try People remember information better when stories are organized according to well-known structures. That’s because those familiar structures fit into readers’ existing mental frameworks. |
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Resources on how to organize an article Websites, books & tools People don’t drive alphabetically. Why, then, are atlases organized that way? Get the answers to this and more of your questions about story structure with these resources. |
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Resources on how to organize content Websites, books & tools Learn more about how to build the feature, or “stack of boxes” structure. |
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Quotes on how to organize an article What writers & others say “The key to a good story structure is to write a great beginning and a great ending and keep them close together.” — Anonymous |
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