YOUR
STORY CORE
UNIVERSE...
is the ARTISTIC INDUSTRY you choose: Fine Art, Photography,
Theater, Music, Writing, Fashion, Architecture, Visual Media...
QUESTION #1: Is the STORY you are telling well-suited for the
VISUAL MEDIA UNIVERSE?
YOUR
GALAXY...
is your Medium of choice: TV Series, Pilot, Movie, Feature, Short...
QUESTION #2: What is your MEDIUM?
YOUR
SOLAR SYSTEM...
is the FORMAT you choose: Episodic, Serial, Docu..
QUESTION #2: What is your FORMAT?
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 GENRE?
YOUR
COUNTRY...
is your THEME: the CENTRAL IDEA that you story
is built on.
QUESTION #1: Do you know your THEME?
YOUR FOREST...
is the SETTING: where your story takes place. The TIME and PLACE.
QUESTION #3: Is your STORY in the right SETTING?
YOUR TREES...
are the details within your FOREST: characters, subplots, dialogue, structure, tone...
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?
THE PATH...
is your PATHFINDER'S physical JOURNEY from the opening image until the final frame.
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...
THE PATH...
This is your PATHFINDER'S physical JOURNEY from the opening image until the final frame.
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...
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...
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. It is the STORY DNA of your PATHFINDER'S emotional journey.
An ATOMIC FIREFLY STORY CORE is fueled by eight interlocking precepts that you determine as the writer before you begin writing that unites everything within your STORY UNIVERSE.
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QUESTION #6: Do you have an ATOMIC FIREFLY STORY CORE?
If so, it will lead your PATHFINDER through their 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..
YOUR
SILENT COMPANION...
This is your audience, your viewer. They are silently beside your PATHFINDER on the JOURNEY, edging them onward, rooting for their success, feeling their pain, their hope, their tragedy, their ecstacy, their victory. They enter your UNIVERSE, GALAXY, WORLD, COUNTRY, and FOREST, amidst the TREES, to follow your PATHFINDER on their journey on their PATH to experience their intrigue, suspense, humor, thrills, fear, new worlds, intimate moments, epic adventures, to laugh, cry, scream, or shout: all because of your STORY.
QUESTION #9: Do you know who your SILENT COMPANION is?
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.