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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8959990" data-attributes="member: 58172"><p>Writing a story is kinda backward, the opposite of the way a story unfolds.</p><p></p><p>Start with the desire. What do the heroes want? This is what the entire story is about. The end of the story, the Return with Elixer is the fulfillment of this desire. (At the start of the story, the heroes dont even know what they want yet. The Call to Adventure is when the heroes discover what it is that they want.)</p><p></p><p>What is it that is stopping them from fulfilling this desire? This obstruction is the villain or analogous adversity, that the heroes will face at the end of the story.</p><p></p><p>What is the ethical message − the moral of the story? This ethical message is exactly how the heroes will overcome the villain.</p><p>Thruout the entire story, every attempt to defeat the villain will fail, except for this ethical message. Indeed, the heroes will even be killed at the end of the story, figuratively or literally. In the Resurrection, it is the ethical message that wins, not the heroes themselves.</p><p></p><p>The Return with the Elixer is important, because the heroes fix the problem that prevented them from fulfilling their desire. They make the world a better place for everybody, so that others can achieve the same desire, without the ordeal that the heroes needed to go thru.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 8959990, member: 58172"] Writing a story is kinda backward, the opposite of the way a story unfolds. Start with the desire. What do the heroes want? This is what the entire story is about. The end of the story, the Return with Elixer is the fulfillment of this desire. (At the start of the story, the heroes dont even know what they want yet. The Call to Adventure is when the heroes discover what it is that they want.) What is it that is stopping them from fulfilling this desire? This obstruction is the villain or analogous adversity, that the heroes will face at the end of the story. What is the ethical message − the moral of the story? This ethical message is exactly how the heroes will overcome the villain. Thruout the entire story, every attempt to defeat the villain will fail, except for this ethical message. Indeed, the heroes will even be killed at the end of the story, figuratively or literally. In the Resurrection, it is the ethical message that wins, not the heroes themselves. The Return with the Elixer is important, because the heroes fix the problem that prevented them from fulfilling their desire. They make the world a better place for everybody, so that others can achieve the same desire, without the ordeal that the heroes needed to go thru. [/QUOTE]
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