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Not counting some forum posts, I haven't written fiction since I was in school, but if I started again, I'd probably try starting with a typical three act structure, a la most TV shows, because it has the straight-forward plot drive, and required story beats, so that I can use it as a boilerplate for the plot and not think too much about structure. As the story and details develop, I'd reserve the right to scrap that structure entirely.
I think I use the same concept when I try to write song lyrics, but in a fiction work of any substantial length, I'd expect the structure would, if anything, get more complex.
In a song, the structure will usually evolve to get simpler, perhaps one act, or more likely one scene within an act, from that three act structure.
I'm going to keep an eye on this thread to see if I get some ideas for uses of structure in helping me pin down a story to write. I keep having ideas but never flesh them out to a whole story line.
ApK
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