Story Backbone

I'm going to try something minor this weekend. Anybody remember the Five Act Structure? Babylon 5 used it a fair bit: Introduction, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution.

These sections are not of uniform length. The Intro is very short, usually just the first chapter. Same with Resolution.

The Climax is more the turning point of the whole thing rather than the final battle. It's kind of the final girding of loins before heading into the last series of events that lead to the standoff. While "Falling Action" sounds like a boring part, it actually holds the last conflict and the immediate fall out, while Resolution is the short final wrap up of the whole story.

I'm bringing this up because I'm going to try and marry the concept of The Sentence to the Five Act Structure in order to identify the barest bones of my story. One sentence to cover each chapter based on the following structure:

Intro - 1 chapter
Rising Action - 3 chapters
Turning Point - 4 chapters
Fallout - 1 chapters
Resolution - 1 chapter

Obviously, this won't include development, side plots, or anything else. Turning Point and Fallout could be +/- 1 chapter, depending on what the secondary characters are up to.

I'll let you know how this turns out this weekend.