CRWR 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Prezi
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>a story includes these three basic things: beginning, middle, end or status quo, period of change, renewed status quo or this is how things were, then everything changed, how things ended up. The story is not just about change but about the possibility of change. Story/plot comes from within a (cid:272)hara(cid:272)ter; it"s (cid:374)ot just so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g that e(cid:454)ists e(cid:454)ter(cid:374)all(cid:455) * the plot or action of the story. * desire, action, conflict, tension, goal, the way your characters make decisions under the pressures of life, defines who they are. * the greater the choice, the deeper sense of who the character really is. * internal journey: change in belief system, the emotional arc of the story, what the story means. >draw the external character journey from desire goal, including conflict, tension and action: (see prezi slides) >list, define and draw the 5 basic structural elements of a basic story arc (external structure): exposition, inciting incident, rising action, crisis, climax, resolution.
