How to Improvise? Alternative narration

What’s Alternative Narration?

What does Alternative narration brings to a Story?

• Branched Options
• Do you feel like your Story is too Straightforward?
• Do you think it’s too Rigid?
• Are you hesitating to make certain choices?
• What’s the source of this Hesitation?
• Would you like to include more of your ideas in the same Story?
• Do you have trouble choosing between different endings?

• Specific Choices
• Are you Writing a Book?
• Are you Designing a Game?
• Can your Book be Reread?
• Can your Game be Replayed?
• How would you increase the Re-readability potential of your Book?
• How would you increase the Re-playability potential of your Book?
• Why should the Public re-read/play it?
• How do Reading choices influence the perception of the Story?
• How do Playing styles influence the perception of the Game?
• What can you do to increase the sense of Choice?
• What does the Decision-making process looks like?

• Layers of Understanding
• What is perception of the Story?
• What could be the Public’s perception of the Story?
• How many types of perception do you think could exist?
• How could these Perceptions converge?
• How could these Perceptions diverge?
• What could be done to Split the opinions on the Story?
• What could be done to Merge the opinions on the Story?
• What should the Public look for in this Story?
• How can you make the experience of Interpretation more personal?
• What makes this Story individual?

 

Summary

• Story
• Can you summarize the Story in 1 Paragraph?
• Can you summarize the Story in 1 Phrase?
• Can you summarize the Story in 1 Word?
• Can you depict the whole Story with 1 Image?
• What’s the main theme of the Story?
• Who are the Main Characters?
• What are they aiming for?
• What prevent them to reach it?

• Chapter
• Can you summarize the Chapter in 1 Paragraph?
• Can you summarize the Chapter in 1 Phrase?
• Can you summarize the Chapter in 1 Word?
• Can you depict the Chapter with 1 Image?
• What’s the Atmosphere of this Chapter?
• Which Characters are present?
• What’s their Goal?
• What’s the main Issue?
• How should it be solved?

• Scene
• What’s the Critical moment of the Scene?
• Can you summarize the Scene in 1 Phrase?
• Can you summarize the Scene in 1 Word?
• Can you depict the Scene with 1 Image?
• What’s the Atmosphere of this Chapter?
• Which Characters are present?
• What’s their Goal?
• What’s the main Issue?
• How should it be solved?

 

Where are we?

• What do we need?
• What do we have?
• What do we need to acquire?
• Where can we acquire it?
• When can we acquire it?
• How can we acquire it?

• Where do we Finish?
• How does the Story End?
• In which Setting?
• Why this Setting?
• What do we get from this Location?
• What are the constraints linked to this Location
• Who else is Present?
• How else could the Story End?
• What are the possible Outcomes?
• What are your Preferred Outcomes?

• Where do we Start?
• How does the Story Begin?
• How’s the Atmosphere?
• Who speaks 1^st?
• Is the Protagonist immediately introduced?
• In which Setting?
• Why this Setting?
• What do we get from this Location?
• What are the constraints linked to this Location
• Who else is Present?

• Itinerary
• Where should we go?
• What’s the most efficient path?
• What’s the most satisfying path?
• What’s the most difficult path?
• What’s the most dangerous path?
• What’s the most heinous path?

 

What do we Do?

• Rest
• Where do the Characters Rest?
• Why can they rest here?
• Is it their preferred place to rest?
• Does this location normally serve another function?
• Why would they rest here?
• What does this place provide?

• Investigation
• Where is the Investigation conducted?
• Why this place?
• How is it conducted?
• Which sort of Information to they need?
• How is the Information Gathered?
• Who is present in the searched location?
• Who is helpful?
• Who is harmful?
• Who can provide Information?
• Who could provide Reliable Information?
• Who can deform this Information?

• Resources Gathering
• What is required?
• What is essential?
• What can be acquired later?
• What sort of resources can be gathered fast?
• What are the most difficult resources to gather?
• Where can we find them?
• Do we need a guide?
• What makes a Reliable guide?
• Is she affable as well?

• Crisis
• What’s the threat?
• Why is it a threat?
• What could we lose?
• Which outcome is the most likely to occur?
• How can the Characters act most efficiently?
• How can the Characters reduce damages as much as possible?
• Do they need to hurt their opponent?

• Games
• What should Players do to Reach the End Game?
• How can they Win?
• How can they Lose?
• What are the Win Conditions?
• How does the game End?
• What should the Characters do?
• What are the Characters Goals?
• Which of them is most likely to reach it?
• How?
• Will it hinder the other Characters?
• Are their Goals incompatible?
• Are their Goals opposed?

• Self-Inquiry
• Where does the Character come from?
• What crisis has she been through?
• How did she manage to survive?
• Through which effort does she go today?
• How does she struggle?
• Does she sit often?
• Is she still?
• Does she lose her temper?
• When does she isolate?
• Why does she isolate?
• Does she value Knowledge?
• Does she value Wisdom?

Who do we Meet?

• Who are they?
• What defines them?
• What makes them Unique?
• What motivates them?
• What are they Looking for?
• How do they Act?
• How do they Behave?

• What would make them like us?
• What would make them love us?
• How should you act towards them?
• What’s appropriate to do in their presence?
• What do they consider as a Reward?
• What do they consider as a Gift?
• What do they consider as a Compliment?
• What do they consider as a Validation?
• Where do they like to go?
• Who do they frequent the most?
• Do they enjoy these encounters?
• How do they relate to the other Characters?

• What would make them dislike us?
• What would make them hate us?
• How should you never act towards them?
• What’s inappropriate to do in their presence?
• How do they define Sanction?
• How do they define Threat?
• How do they define Insult?
• How do they define Rejection?
• What’s their least favored place?
• Who do they frequent the least?
• Why do they skip these encounters?
• How do they relate to the Characters they dislike?