Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Control is why brains are on constant alert for the unexpected. Unexpected change is a portal through which danger arrives to swipe at our throats. Paradoxically, however, change is also an opportunity. It’s the crack in the universe through which the future arrives. Change is hope. Change is promise. It’s our winding path to a more successful tomo
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A story cannot be told about a protagonist who doesn’t want anything, who cannot make decisions, whose actions effect no change at any level.
Robert McKee • Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
a scene is unified around desire, action, conflict, and change.
Robert McKee • Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
The world will include many things, but it needs one in particular: purpose. Inside the world, it needs to be really obvious what our goals are, and why we want our push our system into a new state. You fill your world with familiar storylines and tension and characters, highlighted or re-framed compared to the real world, that give everyone a real... See more