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?