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How to write a story
This tutorial provides you complex tools to build your stories, and tells you :
- how to make engaging plots and structures,
- how to build memorable characters, with diversified roles,
- how to make drama effects
- how to manage the narrative parameters.
Designed and written for experienced creative folks, it is usable as a guide ressource for your projects in any media, any art, any size, any style. Scriptwriting, screenwriting, playwriting, songwriting…
It deepens Storytelling – Introduction and Storytelling 1 – Beginner that can provide you the basics.
Table of Contents
1. Complex plots
1. The structure of plots
- Morphology: a grammar of stories
- Vladimir Propp
- Structuralists
- Structuralists’ narrative schema
- USA pragmatists
- Many theories, many standard plots
2. Multiple plots stories
- Multiple plots stories
- Interlaced plots
- Crossed plots
- Factorial plots
- Included plots
- Series of plots
- The plots structure in Pulp Fiction
3. Mixing drama and non-drama
- Hybrid structures
- Mixing drama and non-drama
4. Transitions
- Transitions
2. Complex characters
1. How to build and interconnect them
- Thematic role and actantial role
- Characters typology
- The actantial schema
2. How stories represent worlds
- Case study: Thematic roles in Pulp Fiction
- Case study: The characters in Nip/Tuck
3. Shaping drama
1. Controlling narration parameters
- Parameters
- Media
- Genre
- Mood and emotion
- Tone and register
- Style
2. Chronologies, time scale…
- Chronologies
- Time scale
- Plots sizes
- Rhythm
- Logics
- Space
3. Who tells what to who?
- Author, narrator, receiver, audience
- Case study: Man On The Moon
- Narration, focus, point of view
- Mixed narration
- Case study: The Idiots
- Distributing information
Enjoy your reading !
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