This document provides an outline for plotting a story, including sections for major and minor characters, the setting, conflict, exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. It suggests including indirect characterization of the characters and sensory details when describing the setting to show how it affects the story. The outline then provides a structure for narrating the key events in the rising action, climax, and falling action to build tension and suspense and resolve the main conflict by the ending.