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Five Commandments of Storytelling - Part 3

Story Grid Writing Podcast

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The Crisis Matrix Is Organized in Terms of Virtues

The crisis matrix is organized in terms of the three aristotelian virtues that we're all trying to optimize. So those three virtues are the good, truth and beauty. When is it a when when do you emphasize one over the other in order to attain a particular kind of beauty? A beauty is complexity, so its minimum viuable features for a whole greater than the sum of its parts. It's not so simple to say, always tell the truth or always place life above truth, right? The real story happened before where things were still uncertain.

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