story
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The Three C’s of a Scene
Your primary focus is on story and less on writing scenes, sharp dialogue or gripping action. Inevitably, though, once figured…
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Inciting Incident: Event, not Action.
When talking about story structure, many people talk about where exactly in the story the structural element needs to happen.…
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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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First, Break All the Rules
When I asked this student which one thing she remembered above anything else, she replied: "That you can break the…
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Selected Bibliography
This bibliography I often include in my course notes. It contains publications that I regularly consult or quote from. Aronson,…