@amaranth@weirder.earth resources? not really. but i'd be happy to chat about it

in particular i think the narrative arc you've described (exposition, rising action, climax, resolution) doesn't work and never has worked for sentimental fiction (romances) and is really, uh, masculine in its understanding of literature (if you want to hear french feminist theorists complaining about this, look up écriture féminine). women's writing and women's genres historically have not been so climax-focused.

i do encourage you to read about and think about media from non-Western sources. there is a different between emulation someone and learning from them. people from other cultures and speaking other languages know things about literature which you could spend a lifetime reading Western works and never encounter, and you can and should seek out and learn those things. knowing more about literature will never make you a worse writer. make use of that knowledge respectfully.

i also encourage you to think about how works in other mediums do things. look at poems, look at albums, look at games, look at comics, etc. there are interesting things happening in these spaces which are transferable to literature