YOUR
STORY CORE
UNIVERSE
Every Artist/Storyteller inhabits a STORY CORE UNIVERSE. This is your
INDUSTRY OF CHOICE: Architecture, Fine Art, Sculpture, Photography,
Theater, Dance, Music, Writing, Fashion, Audio-Visual/Entertainment...
As a screenwriter, your STORY CORE UNIVERSE is:
AUDIO-VISUAL/ENTERTAINMENT.
YOUR
GALAXY...
is your MEDIUM within your AUDIO-VISUAL/ENTERTAINMENT UNIVERSE:
TV Series, Pilot, Movie, Feature, Short...
YOUR WORLD...
is the GENRE of your STORY: drama, comedy, sci-fi,
horror, suspense, thriller, fantasy, historical,
animation, family, bio pic, and so on.
YOUR
COUNTRY...
is your THEME: the CENTRAL IDEA that you STORY
is built on. The FOUNDATIONAL MESSAGE.
YOUR FOREST...
is your SETTING: where your STORY takes place. The TIME and PLACE.
YOUR TREES...
are the details within your FOREST: characters, subplots, dialogue, structure, tone...
YOUR
PATHFINDER...
is your hero/protagonist who embarks into the great unknown. This is your adventure-seeker, traveler, journeyman/woman, sojourner, pilgrim, pioneer, anti-hero...
THE PATH...
is your PATHFINDER'S physical JOURNEY from the opening image
to the final frame.
YOUR
STORY CORE...
Is the POWER, the LIGHT, the ENGINE that compels your STORY
from the beginning to the end. The heartbeat of the JOURNEY. The over-arching GUIDING LIGHT. An ATOMIC FIREFLY STORY CORE carries the DNA of your PATHFINDER'S emotional JOURNEY.
The ATOMIC FIREFLY STORY CORE is fueled by eight interlocking STORY PRECEPTS that you determine as the writer before you begin writing. It unites everything within your STORY UNIVERSE.
THE
INEVITABLE
DESTINATION...
This is the end of your PATHFINDER'S JOURNEY. The finish-line they must cross. It is the inevitable conclusion, because the ATOMIC FIREFLY STORY CORE weaves a golden thread that unites all of the elements in your STORY CORE UNIVERSE, bringing your STORY to its final, satisfying conclusion.
YOUR
SILENT COMPANION...
This is the watcher. Your audience. Your viewer. A collective of ONE. They are silent, because they walk beside your PATHFINDER on their JOURNEY, edging them onward, rooting for their success, feeling their pain, their hope, their tragedy, their ecstasy, their victory. They enter your UNIVERSE, GALAXY, WORLD, COUNTRY, and FOREST, journeying amidst your TREES, to follow your PATHFINDER along their PATH for one reason: to experience their intrigue, suspense, humor, thrills, fear, inspiration, discovering new worlds, epic adventures, intimate moments, to laugh, cry, scream, or shout: all because of your well-crafted STORY.
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 SILENT COMPANIONS from the beginning, in your correlating WORLD and UNIVERSE.
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Whether your are a novice or seasoned writer, at some point you may find yourself stuck or lost, needing help along the way from a PATHFINDER GUIDE or STORY CORE NAVIGATOR, to stay on the right path for the STORY you want to tell.
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Click on the link below to begin your ATOMIC FIREFLY STORE CORE journey.