Quick Short Story
- Start with the End
- How does the Story End?
- Where does it End?
- Why should it end this way?
- What does it tell us about the Story?
- Which Information does it give us on the 1st Chapter?
- How should Character’s evolution conclude?
- Introduction
- Where does the Story Begin?
- What is the Atmosphere?
- Who are the People?
- Where do they Live?
- How do they Live?
- What are their Issues?
- How do they manage them?
- Which Event occurs?
- How is the 1st Environment of the Story?
- Which Character is Introduced?
- Revelation of a Plot
- Which Element Starts the Story?
- Which Element will the Trigger the Character’s journey?
- What will force them to Change?
- How does it relate to their original Goal?
- How could it make this Goal evolve?
- Write 3 Crisis
- What will make the Character React?
- What will force the Character to Evolve?
- Did the Characters lose a relative?
- A family member?
- Who was she?
- Was she the Antagonist?
- Has this person died?
- Has she disappeared?
- What will be the Character’s Reaction?
- Shock?
- Denial?
- Anger & Bargaining?
- Illness & Sadness?
- Fatality?
- Acceptance?
- How does the Crisis affect characters’ Perception?
- What damages did the Crisis cause?
- Which trauma will it cause?
- How will it allow her to evolve?
- How will the Crisis influence the Character’s Decisions?
- Will it give her the opportunity to heal herself?
- Will the Character realize she needs a break?
- Rest & Comfort phases
- How will the Character’s Rest?
- Does she need to sleep more?
- Does she need to play more?
- Does she need to ponder?
- Does she need to gather resources?
- How would she amuse herself?
- How would she entertain herself?
- With whom?
- Who brings her the most Comfort?
- Who brings her the most Joy?
- Who brings her the most Confidence?
- Who are these Persons?
- Did she find them?
- How can she find them?
- Where?
- Which place represent Safety?
- Where can she amuse herself?
- Where can she truly rest?
- Where is she protected from Threats?
With Friends
- 3-4 Friends
- What Common Interests do you have?
- What Entices them?
- What Special Interests does each of them have?
- What do they speak about the most?
- Which topics?
- How often?
- Do they share their ambitions with you?
- Why you?
- Why are you special to them?
- What do you have in common?
- Are you interested by the same topic?
- How can you expand this topic together?
- Can you form a team?
- How would you integrate these Interests in a new Project?
- Which project?
- Create a Character each
- What’s the Character’s Goal?
- What are her Interests?
- What are her Strengths?
- What are her Weaknesses?
- What are her Quirks?
- How is her Body?
- How is her Face?
- Which Habits does she have?
- Which Accessories does she bear/use?
- Create an Environment each
- What are the Origins of this Environment?
- Which Resources does it shelter?
- Which Landscapes form it?
- How is the Wildlife?
- Are there Landmarks?
- How are its Inhabitants?
- Which Organizations are interested in it?
- What are they looking for?
- Alternative Endings
- Create an Ending each.
- How do these Ending articulate with each other?
- Should you keep them all?
- Can you?
- Would you use them for other Stories?
- Can you turn them into individual stories?
- Do you want to start an Interactive Story?
- In which each story becomes available?
- How would you reach each of them?
- What are their peculiarities?
- How do they differ from each other?
- What do they represent for the Characters?
- What do they represent for the World?
- Continue together
- You finished your 1st Draft.
- What would they add?
- What would they remove?
- What would they modify?
- Listen to their Insights.
- Question them.
- Ask to start with a 1-sentence answer
- And then to develop extensively.
On a Journey
- Holidays
- Where would you go on a vacation?
- Why this Place?
- Which Peculiarities does it have?
- Why are we here?
- Why do we stay here?
- Why will we quit this place?
- How would you decorate this place?
- What would you take off this place as a souvenir?
- Who are you travelling with?
- How are they?
- Are they helpful?
- Are they Comforting?
- Are they Enticing?
- Do they propose Food & Drinks to the team?
- Are they annoying?
- How well do they Guide you?
- How do they motivate you to continue?
- Are they reactive?
- Do they Complain a lot?
- Adventure
- Where are You going?
- Are you getting into a foreign land?
- Are you moving to a new formed settlement?
- Is it highly populated?
- Is it recluse?
- Why would you go there?
- Do you need some rest?
- Do you need to find someone?
- Are you looking for a unique object therein?
- Is there a specific tool produced only in this place?
- Are there special special resources in this place?
- Foreign environment
- Imagine a place.
- Like a Dream or a Nightmare.
- Which exists out of the rest of the World.
- In Isolation.
- A distant place where you can come back.
- A distant place from which you can come back.
- A distant place where you cannot come back.
- A distant place from which you cannot come back.
- Can you describe them all?
- How would you make them memorable?
- Take a common Setting.
- Add an Unusual element to it.
- Try an Unusual situation.
- Try to Reverse the situation.
- Try a Regular situation, but remove a Critical component.
Dream – 4th way
- What do you want to use?
- Would you Write your Dreams?
- What do you want to Remember?
- Why do you want to Remember it?
- Was it particularly Pleasing?
- Was it particularly Comforting?
- Was it Remarkable?
- Why was it Remarkable?
- What do you want to Forget?
- What do you want to Share?
- What do you want to Hide?
- Which Dreams marked you the most?
- How do you define a Nightmare?
- What turns a dream into a Nightmare?
- Symbols
- Imagine the function of a Symbol.
- Make a list of Symbols.
- What’s a Flag?
- What’s a Star?
- What’s a Tower?
- What’s a Medal?
- What’s a Statue?
- You can expand the list as much as you need.
- Are there other representation for the same symbol?
- How would you deform the representation?
- How would it alter the perception of the symbol?
- Do you want to renew the perception of this symbol?
- Can you invent a Symbol?
- What would be its Use?
- How would people see it?
- What would it remind them of?
- Fantasies & Hypothesis
- Which Situations were you exposed to?
- Which Situations did you imagine?
- How did you imagine it?
- Which Situations came out of your Mind?
- What would never happen in your Dreams?
- What do you Wish would happen?
- What Could happen if you…
- You were someone else?
- You were living somewhere else?
- You were exposed to different influences?
- Which kind of Influences?
- Which Skill would you want to have?
- How can you obtain it?
- How feasible is it?
- In how much time?
- Who would you like to have a Relationship with?
- How would this person be?
- How would she behave?
- Where would she live?