Storytelling Frameworks

Storytelling tips from the Book "Show Your Work!"

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Today I discovered 4 interesting frameworks to tell better stories.

1. Story Circle by Dan Harmon

   1. Character in a zone of comfort

   2. The character wants something more.

   3. The character enters an unfamiliar situation

   4. Adapts to it

   5. Get what they wanted

   6. Pay a heavy price for it

   7. Returns to familiar situation

   8. Having changed

2. Pixar´s storytelling framework

   1. Once upon a time, there was ____. Every day, ____. Once day, ____. Because of that, ____. Until finally, ___.

3. The Kurt Vonnegut storytelling graph:

   1. The man in the hole goes from good situation to bad to good throughout the story.

   2. Cinderella goes from bad, to good, to bad, to good again.

4. The Guestave Freytag Pyramid

   1. Exposition to something

   2. Inciting Incident

   3. Climax

   4. Resolution

   5. Denouement