Story arc

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A story arc (also narrative arc) is the chronological construction of a plot in a novel, film, or episodic media like television, comic books, comic strips, board games, and video games. In an episodic show, a story arc unfolds over multiple episodes or seasons instead of resolving in a single installment. Although multi-episode storylines have existed in serial fiction for centuries, one of the earliest recorded print usages of the term "story arc" appeared in 1973 in Time magazine regarding the film The Friends of Eddie Coyle: "He accomplishes this with no sacrifice to the pacing of his action sequences or the suspenseful development of his story's arc."

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