Story & Structure
The craft of telling a story starts with structure skills.
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Inciting Incident: Definitions
Inciting Incident, Catalyst, Call to Adventure, Disturbance. All terms referring to the first crucial moment: the point where your story…
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The Inciting Incident
The first guy to write down that a story needs a beginning, middle and end, was Aristotle. About twenty-four centuries…
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Learn from other people’s mistakes
When the Australian Writers Guild NSW organised a night with prominent script editors, one of the questions to the panel…
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Plot Point: Brainstorming Plot Points
Writing a first draft is in essence brainstorming plot points and writing them down in a more or less chronological…
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Logline: Examples
A 17th Century tale of adventure on the Caribbean Sea where the roguish yet charming Captain Jack Sparrow joins forces…
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Logline: Definitions
Let's start by saying what it isn't. It is not a tagline. It is not really a one-paragraph synopsis either.…