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The 5 Commandments of Storytelling (Revisited)

Story Grid Writing Podcast

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The Crisis Is Question, What Is the Character Going to Do?

The answer to the question is, what the character does in this situation. That's the climax. The resolution is what happens as a result of the character taking that action? Yes. So it doesn't necessarily have to go positive, negative or negative, positive. It can go from positive, oh, a, i just found a quarter the sidewalk, to a double positive. I'm going to put this quarter in the slot machine. Oh, my gosh, i just won three thousand dollars. Positive to double positive works too. Now you don't want to have your scenes going negative, double negative,double negative, triple negative, quadruple negative."

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