Nine Point Story Structure Template

Here's a link Links to an external site. to a great Nine-Point Story Structure Template.  

You can use it to build a story or to gage the placement and power of major plot points in your story.  

A simple paradoxical caveat:  Never get 'boxed in' by matrices like these.  Remember Rumi's advice:

"It is 100 times better to find your way by fragrance than by a map."