STORY DYNAMICS

Story Dynamics depiction

WORKSHEET

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



Set-up

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

What jars the set-up universe into action, ideally changing everything that can be changed (often two-parts)?
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What is the narrative question posed by the launch?
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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:
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Climax

Briefly describe the final conflict between the remaining major forces:
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What is the answer to the narrative question posed by the launch?
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Resolution

Describe the final equilibrium state resulting from the changes the forces underwent in the story and climax:
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Work the Story Dynamics exercises to develop and check your understanding of this material.

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