on Helping Writers become Authors:

Stories are about change.
Sometimes that change is positive, driven by hopeful or even heroic people.
But sometimes that change is negative, driven by humanity’s darkest urges and blindnesses.
Both stories are necessary, which is why we’re rounding out our two-part series with a beat-by-beat look at the three Negative Arcs—the Disillusionment Arc, the Fall Arc, and the Corruption Arc.