The idea: the seven elements of a viable story for screen, stage, or fiction

✍ Scribed by Bork, Erik

• Publisher: Overfall Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 97 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Thousand Oaks, CA
• ISBN: 1732753008

✦ Synopsis

Introduction. How I arrived at this -- Focus on the idea. The 60/30/10 rule ; The PROBLEM ; How "high" is your concept? ; Nailing the logline -- Punishing. Degree of difficulty ; Great stories are like great games ; Adapting true stories ; Television and "web of conflict" -- Relatable. The role of the "main character" ; Subjective point of view ; The relatable center ; The eight types of story problems ; Likability ; What about character arc? ; The goal of the opening pages ; Why we care about Tony Soprano -- Original. A fresh twist on the familiar ; There's another project just like mine! ; Writer's "Voice" and dealing with feedback ; Why they make bad movies ; Doctors, lawyers, and cops -- Believable. Zombies, aliens, and vampires ; Never confuse ; How is the world different from ours? ; Going for 'the real" ; God and the devil are in the details ; Forced to coexist -- Life-altering. Internal stakes are not enough ; Life-and-death stakes ; Everything else ; Characters dealing with their stuff ; Unmet needs and wants -- Entertaining. Helping the audience escape ; Feelings we like to feel ; Ingredients to add to "drama" ; Rich, sexy, and glamorous -- Meaningful. What is it REALLY about? ; Sticking to the audience's ribs ; TV characters don't really change -- Putting "problem" to work. Where ideas come from ; Finding story ideas ; Talent is overrated.

✦ Subjects

Fiction -- Technique