How to write a Clear Story?

The Goal

• Clear writing
• Write Short Phrases.
• Up to 5 words.
• Separate Description from Dialogue clearly.
• Indicate who speaks.
• Indicate who thinks.
• Limit yourself to 1 Point of View per scene.

• How to help the Public understand the Story?
• How should the Character behave?
• How should they interact?
• How can they be made Relatable?
• When are they Likable?
• What makes them Memorable?
• Which of their actions will be remembered?
• Will their goal be remembered?
• Will they be forgotten?
• Why?

• Focus
• Most of the Action is related to the Story’s Goal.
• How is each Character related to the Goal?
• How is each Setting related to the Goal?
• How is each Object related to the Goal?
• How is each Action related to the Goal?
• What should be unrelated to the Goal?
• What should be indirectly to the Goal?

• Guiding
• What Information is needed in each Scene?
• What Information is needed in each Chapter?
• What Information is needed in the Story?
• How should it be displayed?
• How should it be found?
• Who should be holding it?
• Who needs it?

• Repetition & Importance
• Who should mention this Information?
• Who should know about it?
• Who should know, but never mention it?
• Should it be mention in every dialogue?
• What’s the importance of this Information for each character?

The exterior characters

• Interrogations
• Who is the Interrogator?
• On which topics?
• Does the Protagonist have to answer?
• Is she convicted?
• Rightfully?
• Can she move away?

• Threats
• Who threatens the Protagonist?
• What is she trying to accomplish?
• What is she trying to obtain?
• How is the Protagonist threatened?
• Is it relevant to the situation?
• Who is Menaced?
• Who is Admonished?
• How real is the Threat?

• Pleas
• Who ask the Protagonist for help?
• Who wronged them?
• How were they wronged?
• How do they ask for help?
• Why do they think the Protagonist can help them?
• What do they ask for?
• Can it be accomplished by the Protagonist?

• Gifts & Rewards
• What Reward is offered to the Protagonist?
• How does it relate to the Protagonist?
• How does it help the Protagonist?
• Is it Proportionate to the effort?
• Is it Disproportionate to the effort?
• Is there No apparent Reward?
• Is there No Reward at all?
• Why?

• Supporters
• How are Instructors used?
• What advice do these Instructors give?
• What lessons do they teach?
• How are Guides used?
• Which directions do they Indicate?
• How well do they know their zone?
• How are Rivals used?
• How do they taunt the Protagonist?
• How do they provoke them?
• How do they train them?
• Why are these characters interested by the Protagonist?
• Why do they interact with her?

The Protagonist

• Notes
• Does the Protagonist take notes?
• How does she organize them?
• Does she use Lists?
• Does she use diagrams?
• Does she use Summaries?
• Does she index them?
• Where?
• How often does she Review them?
• When does she review them?

• Pondering
• How does the Protagonist Estimate Difficulty?
• How does she Appreciate Danger?
• Does she plan?
• Does she know how to Gather Resources?
• Does she know when to Gather Resources?
• Does she Ask for help?
• Does she Share?
• Does she exchange with her allies?
• Does she try to understand her ennemies?

• Questioning
• Does the character knows which question to ask?
• What is she looking for at the moment?
• Who should she question?
• Where can she find this person?
• How can she find this person?
• Why would this person answer her?
• What would this person do when she understood the Protagonist’s intentions?
• How would she react?

• Observing
• Is the Protagonist always aware of the issue she is trying to Solve?
• Is the Protagonist looking for Clues?
• Missing objects
• Missing persons
• When does the Protagonist Doubts?
• When does she realize she made mistakes?
• Does she understand her biases?

Symbols & Objects

• Symbolism & Impression
• Symbols Frighten.
• Symbols Awe.
• Symbols allow you to install a tempo.
• Which Symbols are defining the Story?
• Where are there used?

• Allegories
• Which dualities are used?
• Which oppositions are used?
• How are they displayed?
• Who displays them?
• Which Character represents a concept?
• Which Setting represents a concept?
• Which concept?

• Out of Place
• How does this object contrast with the rest of the room?
• Is it too large?
• Is it of a different style?
• Is it left on the floor?
• Is it left in a way it should not?
• What Object makes this scene feel Uncomfortable?
• What creates a sense of Unease?

• Character Related
• Who should be bearing this object?
• Who owns it?
• What information does this object give on a certain character?
• Why is this object here?
• Who left it here?
• Was it forgotten?
• Was it lost?
• Is it damaged?
• Is it still useful to the Character?

Landmarks & Milestones

• Evolution
• Where does the Story End?
• Where does the Story Begin?
• What makes the Story continue?
• What Hinders the Story?
• What Inhibits the Story?
• How does the Story change?
• How does the story adapt?
• What acts as a Catalyst?
• Do you need brutality?
• Do you need impressive scenes?

• Crisis
• What disrupt the Story?
• What blocks the Characters?
• Why does the Protagonist flinch?
• Why is she broken?
• What changes her Goal?
• How does she change?
• Does she put it verbally?
• Does she engrave a symbol on herself?
• Does she pledge herself?
  • To whom?
  • To what?

• Important Places
• What are the Poles of the World?
• Where are people Concentrated?
• Which Location focuses activity?
• Which places should be visited 1st?
• Which places should be avoid?
• Always draw a small map of a location.
• What are the Borders?
• What are the Points of interest?
• Are they easily findable?