YOUR
STORY CORE
UNIVERSE...
is the Medium you choose: TV, movie, series, pilot, feature, or short.
QUESTION #1: What is your UNIVERSE?
YOUR WORLD...
is the genre of your story: drama, comedy, sci-fi,
horror, suspense, thriller, fantasy, historical,
animation, family, bio pic, and so on.
QUESTION #2: What is your WORLD?
YOUR FOREST...
is the plot and physical environment where your story takes place:
the time, place, and setting.
QUESTION #3: Are you in the right FOREST?
YOUR TREES...
are the details within your FOREST: characters, subplots, dialogue, structure, tone, themes...
Too many writers focus on the TREES before they know what FOREST they are in.
QUESTION #4: Can you see the FOREST for your TREES?
YOUR
PATHFINDER...
is your hero/protagonist who embarks into the great unknown. This is your adventure-seeker, traveler, journeyman or woman, sojourner, pilgrim, pioneer, anti-hero...
QUESTION #5: Is your PATHFINDER suitable for...
THE JOURNEY?
This is your PATHFINDER'S physical and emotional JOURNEY from the opening image until the final frame: the outerscape and inscape.
QUESTION #7: Is your PATHFINDER'S JOURNEY cohesive? Or does it meander aimlessly on a rabbit-trail, or dead-end into a box canyon? If so, it may be missing a...
STORY CORE.
This is the power, the light, the engine that compels your story from the beginning to the end. This is the heartbeat of the JOURNEY. The over-arching GUIDING LIGHT.
An ATOMIC FIREFLY STORY CORE is fueled by eight interlocking precepts you determine as the writer that unites everything within your STORY UNIVERSE -- before you ever start writing.
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QUESTION #6: Do you have an ATOMIC FIREFLY STORY CORE?
If so, it will lead the PATHFINDER through his JOURNEY to...
AN INEVITABLE
DESTINATION...
This is the end of the JOURNEY. The finish-line that your PATHFINDER must cross. It is inevitable because your ATOMIC FIREFLY, your STORY CORE choices, ignite a golden thread that unites all the elements of the JOURNEY, bringing the STORY to its final, satisfying conclusion.
QUESTION #8: Is your INEVITABLE DESTINATION worth the cost that the PATHFINDER has paid on the JOURNEY? Is the cost of the JOURNEY worth the time, energy, and investment of..
This is your audience, your viewers. They enter your UNIVERSE, WORLD, FOREST, and TREES, to follow the PATHFINDER on their JOURNEY. They do so because they want to experience intrigue, suspense, comedy, thrills, fear, new worlds, capture an intimate moment, live an epic adventure, laugh, cry, scream, or shout: all because of your STORY JOURNEY.
QUESTION #9: Do you know who your SPECTATORS are?
YOUR
SPECTATORS?
YOUR MISSION...
is to develop your ATOMIC FIREFLY STORY CORE, the light that guides your PATHFINDER into the right FOREST, navigating through the right TREES, to the right DESTINATION, so that the right JOURNEY resonates with the expectations you set up for your SPECTATOR'S in your correlating WORLD and UNIVERSE.
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Are you currently writing a script and are bogged down, but don't know why? Is you script missing a cohesive story through-line? A golden thread?
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Or are you just starting to write a new script and don't know where to begin?
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Whether your are a novice or seasoned writer, we all sometimes need help in getting started -- or staying on track.
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Are you ready to create your own ATOMIC FIREFLY STORY CORE?
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If so, click on the link below to start your STORY CORE JOURNEY.