Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
He enters the forest.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
set-up, confrontation and resolution.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
where you have a reason, you have character desire.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
the moment that catalysed the creation of the neurosis, and consequently the character’s façade.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
the ‘truth’ of the story,1 a truth the protagonist must embrace.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Storytelling, then, is the dramatization of the process of knowledge assimilation.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
sympathy-skank.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
you have a central character, you empathize with them, and something then happens to them, and that something is the genesis of the story.