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All dramatic structure is built on the chassis of change.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
change is at the root of all drama,
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
All have very clear first and last acts – a call to action and a final judgement – but between them too, within the constraints of reality they’re derived from, the same structure as Shakespeare, as Terence and as Horace.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Vogler’s paradigm is in essence nothing more than a three-act structure viewed from the protagonist’s point of view;
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
“Good ideas are not conjured out of thin air; they are built out of a collection of existing parts, the composition of which expands (and occasionally, contracts) over time.”
-“Where Good Ideas Come From” by Steven Johnson
In both examples each line contains a single thought that finishes with the line. This is called end-stopping, which we could mark like this. The woods decay, the woods decay and fall ⊡ I haven’t time to take your call right now ⊡
Stephen Fry • The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
” and it’s hard to think of a verbal array whose structure better mimics both its subject and the larger text of which it’s part: precisely because, despite its exquisitely shaped adventure, the sentence finally fails to hold itself together.