Pro-Wrestling: Learning the Basics of Effective Storytelling

Shelby Fielding
6 min readDec 17, 2020

An essay about the medium of Professional Wrestling and its ability to teach the basic rules of narrative construction, character creation, and the three-act structure of storytelling.

Professional Wrestling, as long as I can recall, has been dubbed as an entertainment slur. It’s a medium of storytelling that has so often been given the boot by major media…

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