After attending  Toni Buzzeo's  wonderful workshop at  The Writers' Loft  on picture book structures, I started noticing them everywhere. I already talked about "Mid-Point Reversal" (or "Mirror") stories in this post: here . Today's post is dedicated to parallel stories: this is where the plot follows two characters on separate journeys through the story. Sometimes the two characters come together at the end, and sometimes they don't but their experiences echo each other. ...