Story Dynamics

WORKSHEET

Work the Story Dynamics Worksheet to ensure your dramatic story works before you start writing.

SET-UP

Briefly establish the dramatic and matched potential of the major forces, or characters and situational elements, that will conflict in the story:

LAUNCH

What jars the set-up universe into action, ideally changing everything that can be changed (often two-parts)?

What is the narrative question posed by the launch?

STORY

The series of major conflicts between the remaining forces from the set-up, as they seek to answer the narrative question--rising toward a climax, with one event/action causing the next as with falling dominoes:

CLIMAX

Briefly describe the final conflict between the remaining major forces:

What is the answer to the narrative question?

RESOLUTION

Describe the final equilibrium state resulting from the changes the forces underwent in the story and climax:

Work the Story Dynamics exercises to develop and check your understanding of this material.