Narrative Structure
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The Power of Wild Shapes in Story Narrative
Theater teacher Dr. Greenwald taught me that Bertolt Brecht's plays would have followed more of a stair step so just be a single line, then there's a space and then another horizontal line and then another one a little higher into the right all the way up to the top step. So it is like the stair step upward and it sort of always helped me visualize the disconnect between chronological chapters because in Brecht’s plays, he will jump so far away in not only location but in years that each scene kind of is the self-contained story. But the next scene might have the same characters just later in life but he's using an entirely different style of narrative
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