Does every story fit the five stages?

No. The pyramid fits classical plays and most novels with one main conflict. Stories with several plot lines, or told out of order, fit it less well. The reply says so when the fit is loose.

Can I drag the shapes and edit the text?

No. The result is a picture, not an editable canvas. To change it, say what to change in the chat, and Winda draws it again from the first one.

Are the words in the picture always right?

Not always. Winda decides the words before it draws and lists them in its reply, so you can check the picture against them. When a word comes out wrong, ask for the picture again.

Plot diagram maker

Name a novel, a play, a film or a short story. Winda picks the event that stands for each stage and draws the plot diagram: a line that rises to the climax and falls to the resolution.

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ExampleThe plot of Romeo and Juliet in five stages.

What you get

Five stages on one line: Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution, along a line shaped like a mountain.
One event for each stage: A short line under each stage that says what happens there, taken from the story.
The climax marked: The turning point sits at the peak and is the largest mark on the page.

The five parts of a plot diagram

A plot diagram maps a story onto a line that rises and falls. The form goes back to the German writer Gustav Freytag, who described the structure of drama as a pyramid in 1863, and it is often called Freytag's pyramid.

The exposition introduces the characters, the place and the situation. The rising action is the chain of events that builds the conflict. The climax is the turning point, after which the outcome can no longer be changed. In the falling action the results of the climax play out, and the resolution shows the new state of things at the end.

The useful work is the choice of the climax. Readers often pick the most violent or the last big scene, but the climax is the moment that decides the ending. In Romeo and Juliet many readers name the deaths in the tomb, which are the resolution. The turn comes earlier, when Romeo kills Tybalt and is banished. Decide for yourself before you look at the diagram, and compare.

How it works

Say what it is about
Name a topic, or add a PDF, a lecture video, an article or your own notes. With files, the result is written from them.
Winda makes it
The template sets the form, so you do not write a prompt. You choose the model that does the work: Claude, GPT, Gemini and others.
Keep it and change it
The result is saved in your project beside your files and chats. Ask for a change in the chat, or make flashcards and a quiz from the same material.

Questions

For widely read works it can draw from general knowledge. For a recent or less known work, or for your own story, add the text or a summary to a project and name it.