Title: Theory / Unimportant / Art / Writting / Anatomy of Story
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Name: Story
Definition: A speaker tells a listener what someone did to get what he wanted and why.
Page: 8, 10, 11
Chapter: 1
Section: THE TELLER AND THE LISTENER, The story
Context: Anatomy of story
Definition2: what a person wants, what he'll do to get it, and what costs he'll have to pay along the way.
Conjdef: All of
Definition3: A set of subsystems, interacting

Name: Storyteller
Definition: plays with the audience
Page: 8
Chapter: 1
Section: THE TELLER AND THE LISTENER
Definition2: selecting, connecting, and building a series of intense moments.
Conjdef: someone who

Question: Why is withholding, or hiding, information is crucial to the storyteller's make-believe.
Answer: It forces the audience to figure out who the character is and what he is doing and so draws the audience into the story.
Page: 9
Chapter: 1
Section: THE TELLER AND THE LISTENER

Question: Audience love
Answer: the feeling part (reliving the life) and
Page: 9
Chapter: 1
Section: THE TELLER AND THE LISTENER
Answer2: the thinking part (figuring out the puzzle)

Name: Dramatic code
Definition: an artistic description of how a person can grow or evolve
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Chapter: 1
Section: THE STORY
Definition2: a process going on underneath every story.

Question: What provoke change
Answer: Desire: I want, therefore I am
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Chapter: 1
Section: THE STORY
Context: Dramatic code

Question: Two legs of a story
Answer: acting: A character pursuing a desire takes actions to get what he wants
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Section: THE STORY
Context: Dramatic code
Answer2: learning: learns new information about better ways to get it.

Question: Genre that highlight learning
Answer: detective story
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Section: THE STORY
Context: Dramatic code
Answer2: multiperspective drama

Question: Ultimate goal of dramatic code
Answer: present a change in a character or to illustrate why that change did not occur.
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Section: THE STORY
Context: Dramatic code

Question: How Myth frame human change ?
Answer: Myth tends to show the widest character arc, from birth to death and from animal to divine.
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Section: THE STORY
Context: Dramatic code

Question: How Plays frame human change ?
Answer: Plays typically focus on the main character's moment of decision.
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Chapter: 1
Section: THE STORY
Context: Dramatic code

Question: How (American) Film frame human change ?
Answer: Film (especially American film) shows the smallchange a character might undergo by seeking a limited goal with great intensity.
Page: 10
Chapter: 1
Section: THE STORY
Context: Dramatic code

Question: How Classic short stories frame human change ?
Answer: Classic short stories usually track a few events that lead the character to gain a single important insight.
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Chapter: 1
Section: THE STORY
Context: Dramatic code

Question: How Serious novels frame human change ?
Answer: typically depict how a person interacts and changes within an entire society
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Chapter: 1
Section: THE STORY
Context: Dramatic code
Answer2: show the precise mental and emotional processes leading up to his change

Question: How Television drama frame human change ?
Answer: Television drama shows a number of characters in a minisociety struggling to change simultaneously.
Page: 10
Chapter: 1
Section: THE STORY
Context: Dramatic code

Name: Theme
Page: 11
Chapter: 1
Section: THE STORY BODY
Name2: Moral argument
Intuition: Brain of the story

Question: The nervous system of a story is
Answer: revelations
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Chapter: 1
Section: THE STORY BODY

Question: The skeleton of a story is
Answer: story structure
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Section: THE STORY BODY

Question: The heart/circulation system of a story is
Answer: characters
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Section: THE STORY BODY

Name: A subsystem of the story
Definition: a web of elements that help define and differentiate the other elements.
Page: 12
Chapter: 1
Section: THE STORY BODY
Context: Story

Name: Linear story
Definition: tracks a single main character from beginning to end.
focus on a single hero who pursues a particular desire with great intensity. The audience witnesses the history of how the hero goes after his desire and is changed as a result.
Page: 13
Chapter: 1
Section: THE STORY BODY
Context: Story
Example: most Hollywood films
Conjdef: A story which
Intuition: implies a historical or biological explanation for what
happens

Name: Meandering story
Definition: follows a winding path without apparent direction.
Page: 13
Chapter: 1
Context: Story
Example: Odyssey
Conjdef: A story which
Example2: comic journey stories like Don Quixote, Tom Jones, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Little Big Man, and Flirting with Disaster

Name: Spiral story
Definition: a character
Page: 13
Chapter: 1
Context: Story
Example: Thrillers like Vertigo, Blow-Up, The Conversation, and Memento
Conjdef: A story which

Name: Branching story
Definition: a system of paths that extend from a few central points by splitting and adding smaller and smaller parts.
Page: 14
Chapter: 1
Definition2: each branch usually represents a complete society in detail or a detailed stage of the same society that the hero explores.
Example: more advanced fiction, such as social fantasies like Gulliver's Travels and It's a Wonderfu
Example2: multiple-hero stories like Nashville, American Graffiti, and Traffic

Name: Explosive story
Definition: Story which give appearance of simultaneity of multiple paths that extend simultaneously
Page: 15
Chapter: 1
Example: American Graffiti, Pulp
Fiction, Traffic, Syriana, Crash, Nashville, Tristram Shandy, Ulysses, Last Year at Marienbad, Ragtime, The Canterbury Tales, L.A. confidential, and Hannah and Her Sisters.

Question: Standard writer's flaw
Answer: a generic premise, or story idea, that is a vague copy of one that already exists.
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Answer2: focuses almost all of his attention on the hero. "fleshes out" this character mechanically, by tacking on as many traits as possible, and figures he'll make the hero change in the last scene.
Answer3: Three-act structure, mechanically applied
Answer4: Either avoid theme, or put it strictly in dialogue
Answer5: No symbols(it would be obvious and pretentious)
Answer6: plot and a scene sequence based on one question: What happens next? Dialogue only based on this question
Answer7: Journey is physical.

Name: Premise
Definition: your entire story condensed to a single sentence
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Chapter: 1
Applied to3: suggest the essence of the story, and we will use that to figure out how to develop it so as to get the most out of the idea.

Title: Jurassic park
Description: What if you took the two greatest heavyweights of evolution—dinosaurs and humans—and forced them to fight to the death in the same ring?
Creators: Michael Chrichton

Name: Premise
Definition: some event that starts the action
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Chapter: 2
Definition2: some sense of the main character
Example: The youngest son of a Mafia family takes revenge on the men who shot his father and becomes the new Godfather.
Conjdef: A story stated in one sentence. Usually
Definition3: some sense of the outcome of the story
Example2: When a princess falls into mortal danger, a young man uses his skills as a fighter to save her and defeat the evil forces of a galactic empire.
Intuition: your inspiration. It's the "lightbulb" moment when you say, "Now that would make a terrific story," and that excitement gives you the perseverance to go through months, even years, of hard writing.
Example3: An aging beauty tries to get a man to marry her while under constant attack from her sister's brutish husband.
Applied to: Godfather
Example4: While her fiance visits his mother in Italy, a woman falls in love with the man's brother.
A tough American expatriate rediscovers an old flame only to give her up so that he can fight the Nazis.
Applied to3: A Streetcar Named Desire:
Applied to2: Star Wars
Applied to4: Moonstruck
Casablanca

Name: High concept premise
Definition: catchy one-line description that audiences will understand instantly and come rushing to the theater to see.
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Chapter: 2

Question: Why must you choose a good premise
Answer: It's a prison. You won't be writting about all other great idea while you write this one
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Chapter: 2
Answer2: It's the first difference between selling or not
Answer3: one decision on which every other decision you make during the writing process is based. Character, plot,theme, symbol—it all comes out of this story idea

Name: Developing your premise
Definition: Write Something That May Change Your Life
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Chapter: 2
Definition2: Look for What's Possible
Definition3: Identify the Story Challenges and Problems
Definition4: Find the Designing Principle
Definition5: Determine Your Best Character in the Idea
Definition6: Get a Sense of the Central Conflict
Definition7: Get a Sense of the Single Cause-and-Effect Pathway
Definition8: Determine Your Hero's Possible Character
Change
Definition9: Figure Out the Hero's Possible Moral Choice
Definition10: Gauge the Audience Appeal

Question: Write Something That May Change Your Life
Answer: create wish list and premise list, find its intersection, what is repeated
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Chapter: 2

Name: Wish list
Definition: list of everything you would like to see up on the screen, in a book, or at the theater.
Page: 23
Chapter: 2
Context: Anatomy of scenario

Name: premise list
Definition: a list of every premise (in one sentence) you've ever thought of
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Chapter: 2
Context: Anatomy of scenario