Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
In an archetypal script, that truth will be an embodiment of everything that’s the direct opposite of the person they were.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
We hide our dark impulses, we deplete our energy worrying about how we may be perceived; it’s an anxiety that fuels fashion, music and
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
the micro crisis point providing the catalyst for both the next act and the story as a whole.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
‘subversions of expectation’ – a sudden twist both surprising yet plausible which throws the story in a new direction.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
peripeteia in action.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Georg Hegel adapted and expanded this idea. Truth, he argued, could only be found through a journey of continual opposition;
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Exposition works when it’s a tool a character uses to achieve their desire. If this desire is confronted with opposition, conflict is generated and exposition becomes invisible. The greater the conflict, the less visible the exposition.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
It’s growth, then decay, then