EightPlotting the Story—I
We’ve started with Idea … we’ve questioned our Idea … we’ve made some adjustments. Then we went from Idea to shaping the story in the form of a Step Outline. We’ve said that story is the progression of the significant activities that occur in the telling of the material. Story is what happens—exclusively what happens. And we prove out Story by doing a Step Outline. Our Step Outline is the progression of the major turning points in the sequence of what happens. We now have a viable structure to our story. So we’ve gone from generalizing an idea to focusing the Idea into a Step Outline, story structure, a skeleton.
The Step Outline is our reference point as we move into the next stage of process. It’s also the most valuable ...
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