How to Evolve faster as a Storyteller?

• How do you evolve fast?
• Identify your Main Weaknesses.
• Get better.
• And, in parallel, develop your Strengths.
• Experimentation must become an Habit.
• How so?
• Here’s a Process.

Summary – 6 Steps to better Storytelling

1. Write more Stories.
2. End your Stories.
3. Let your Worlds Unfold.
4. Most of the Time, only hint.
5. Have a Structure and then Improvise.
6. Ask for Input.
   • Ask for Implementable Procedures.

• To make this routine faster you need to develop on 2 Fundamental Traits.
• These 2 Fundamental Traits are:
• Focus on the Process
• Embrace Repetition



More Stories

• Daily Production
• Write everyday.
• Draw everyday.
• It will develop your sense of Observation.
• If you can play an instrument, play & record.
• If you can’t and want to, find someone to teach you.
• It will develop your Listening & your Rhythm.
• Learn Animation, it will develop your sense of Economy.
• Practicing multiple Skills will enhance your ability to create Diversity & Synergy between your Stories.

• Give your Stories an End
• The most enjoyable Part of Writing is the Beginning.
• So, Finish your Stories with the aim of Starting New ones.
• End your Stories & Start new Stories.
• Give your Stories a Satisfying End.
• Satisfying at least in your Terms.
• Make the end meaningful.
• End stories fast.
• You need time to develop Worlds.
• But you can end Stories quickly.

• Write more and then… Write
• You need more Stories.
• More experiments, more Trials.
• Write more Stories.
• Publish more Stories.
• Make it a Game.
• Relish in World Building, this is Your World.
• Develop a Large World & let it Unfold patiently.
• Give attention to all Stories, Characters & Worlds.

If you want to know more about writing more Stories.



Letting your Worlds Unfold

• Give yourself some time for Discovery
• You’ll Need time to find new Ideas.
• Put some ideas on the side.
• If didn’t have time to implement an Idea in your last Story place it in another.
• Worlds are large, even when they are small.
• You could create a single Building and still spend your whole life developing the stories related to this Building.
• All you need is a diverse cast of Characters.

• Leave some Room for Question
• Let people ask you Questions.
• Listen to your Team.
• Listen to the Public.
• Answer some questions directly.
• Answer other through another Story.
• Most time, hint.
• Only hinting is more rewarding.
• Make the research a Game.

• Stories need to be Clear.
• Only the Main Story needs to be Clear.
• The Protagonist’s Story.
• They do not need to be Complete.
  • Or overloaded…
• Give Information that are necessary to Understand the Core Story.
• The Story which is presented as the Core Story.
• If you have a Hidden Story…
  • Create a parallel between the Displayed Story & the Hidden Story.

• Adaption & Improvisation
• You’ll need a Basic Structure.
  • 10 Chapters.
  • 6 – 12 Characters.
  • 1 – 6 Environments.
• You need Templates to Start.
• You also need to give yourself some room to meet your Characters.
• You need some time to add new elements.
• And sometimes these additions will come as the Story unfolds.
• Have a Structure.
• And then, let Improvisation happen.

If you want to know more about World building.

Try Different Scales

• Different Time Limits
• Write 200-300 pages in 1 month.
• Write 1000-2000 pages in a 1 year.
• Try to write a 100 pages book in 1 week.
• Try a 30 pages short story in 4 hours.
• Try a 200 pages book in 24 hours.
• You can try to write a Series over 10 years.
• Always have a time limit.

• Different World Sizes
• Start Series & Sagas.
• Let them develop over 5-6 years.
• Write Trilogies in a year.
• Make them City scaled.
• And fully develop this City.
• Create a Country.
• Let your Series take place on 1 or multiple Planets.
• Try different World types.

• Different Contexts
• A Context is the Combination of a Genre & a Frame.
• Try all 6 Genres.
  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Sagas
  • Horror
• Try every each of the Most popular frames
  • Science-Fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Mystery
  • War
  • Western
  • Pirates
• Combine Multiple Genre.
• Combine Multiple Frame.
• Make these Combination clear.
• Show the different elements you’re using clearly.
• And then, update their meaning.
• Update their perception.
• Contexts have 2 main Functions:
  • Create Readability.
  • Create a sense of Familiarity

If you want to know more about Maps & Story Scale.



Ask for Feedback

That’s the most developed part because it’s the most important one.

• Always ask for Corrective Procedures.
• Stories need to Improve.
• Ask for how the Story should be Improved.
• To Improve them & get better you need Implementable Information.
• You need Procedures.
• Concise is better.
• Ask for a Remark on Characters, Environments & Story.
• These Procedures can be a simple set of 3-5 Questions.
  • ex: Could the relationship between the Antagonist & the Protagonist developed?
    • This Question is too imprecise.
    • In Which way?
    • In which Context: Origins, Goal, Behavior, Relationship with other Characters? ex: Could the relationship between the Antagonist & the Protagonist developed?
  • ex: I have trouble to Imagine the Forest in chapter 3
    • What lacks of precision?
    • Is it the Atmosphere, the Colors, the Weather, the Vegetation?
    • Does the Forest need Inhabitants: Humans, Animals?

• Work with a Team
• Different members.
• Diversity will always be a Strength.
  • Conflicts are not an issue as long as they are related on your Projects
• Capitalize on each member.
• Each of them should have different Ideas.
• They all have a Specialization.
• An Illustrator or a Musician input on an Environment, on the way to develop the relationship between 2 Characters will be different.
• Ask for Definitions.
• Ask for Criteria.
• Compare the 2 Perspectives.

• Work with the Characters
• Interrogate your Characters.
• Track their evolution in most direct way.
• Give them choices.
• Choices to change of Goal.
• Of Partners.
• Ask them if they’d prefer to be in another Story.
• How should the Story should change.
• The 2 most Important questions you can ask them are:
  • Which new element should appear in this Story?
  • What’s the most memorable part of this World?

• If you’re already Publishing…
• Work with the Public.
• Organize Poles.
• Read & Answers to your Comments.
• Make promotional Videos or Audio material.
  • Whichever feels more comfortable for you to start with.
• Organize give away.
  • Only to receive Criticism.
  • This last point may be the most difficult to implement.
  • Try to produce a Story every Year which will be released for the sole purpose to be Criticized.
• And always ask for Corrective Procedures.
  • You have no use for Likes & Dislikes.

• Work with You.
• Define your Ideal :
  • Characters,
  • Environments,
  • Stories,
  • Organizations,
  • Items.
• These Definitions are prevalent.

If you want to know more about Team Project development.