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Five Commandments of Storytelling - Part 2

Story Grid Writing Podcast

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The Inciting Incident and the Responsibility of Keeping the Truth

On the surface, we have safety versus vulnerability and danger to his family. And then we have criminal remains concealed versus criminals exposed. So this is a trolley problem of which of these dangers do i place more value on? That's a level of tension within the on the surface. But then when we go down to above the surface, then we are getting those prioritization tensions add id in as well. In making the decision going forward into the climax, that's what our protagonist will be weighing as both the optimization within the level and then the prioriization of comparing the levels.

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