Josiah DeGraaf

@hope Got it. Those story points make sense then.

With regards to the other question, I do agree that there are additional challenges when you don’t have physical conflicts like that. I think some of that will require a lot more deep-POV where you’re getting into the character’s head and really ferreting our his/her thoughts and where he/she is…[Read more]

@audrey-caylin Got it. Sounds like this is one of those scenes that’s going to be a bit trickier to weave one of your themes into. Foreshadowing can be a great technique, though, so if you use it to foreshadow how her Experiments might fail, that could be a great way of weaving it in.

@hope That looks fantastic! Great work.

@hope Not completely sure what you mean with the mental/physical distinction since, from a thematic perspective, you can weave themes into both sorts of stories in a rather similar way. What parts of these lessons do you think have been more focused on physical conflicts than mental conflicts?

I’m not sure how well story structure works across…[Read more]

@audrey-caylin Got it. In that case, scenes 1 and 3 look like a great way of deepening the protagonist’s EiL and pushing her forward in that. How would you say that scene 2 relates to the themes of truth & forgiveness?

Thanks for posting this Daeus! Y’all should come. This time we’ll be making sure all 3 of us are actually able to participate in the panel. 😉

@hope That looks great! I really like the expanded depth you have here with both five-step processes. They look good to me. 🙂

@audrey-caylin Haha, nice work choosing ‘normal’ scenes. 😉 Just so I understand what’s going on in this other story, what’s the theme that’s being tackled?

Welcome back. 😉 I appreciate the spoilers. xD My spring break is coming up this next week and A Time to Die is at the top of my reading list for that week. Great work with those scenes. Sounds like a great way that Brandes initially forces the protagonist to choose a specific Experiment in Living, and then continues to test and push her in that…[Read more]

@jenali That sounds like a great example. I love how many mothers are being mentioned in this thread!

@overcomer YES. One of my favorite things is being able to see storytelling principles of a sort in my own life. Thanks for sharing! And I agree that faith is certainly another major theme in Lord of the Rings.

@anna-brie Sorry to hear that. :/ Unfortunately, I don’t recall seeing any posts here either…

@hope Yeah, characteristic moments are harder when you’re plotting over a full trilogy. That story actually looks like a flat arc to me with just a really poignant third plot point. To turn it into a disillusionment arc followed by a positive arc, I…[Read more]

@jenali That does sound like a depressing book. Course I guess that isn’t exactly new to Dickens. =P Good example. Sometimes catharsis means giving another character a positive fate if the negative arc character can’t achieve any epiphany.

@dragon-snapper Yep. The more developed an antagonist is, the more likely he’s going to have a character arc. We’ll be discussing that in a bit more detail later on in the series, but the short answer is that either arc type can work–it all depends on the specific story you want to tell!

@dragon-snapper Haha, we did mention it in the video, but I think it’s a great example of catharsis! Setting up the end of the story with hope for the rest of the series was a great way of handling catharsis in that movie.

@dragon-snapper Got it. Sounds good!

@dragon-snapper Great to hear! Glad it’s been helping. 🙂

@dragon-snapper Good. I like those experiments. My one suggestion would be to include some physical consequences for those experiments along with the psychological experiments. I’m copy-pasting what I said to Audrey on this:

“One thing you may want to begin thinking about if you haven’t already, is how that’s going to outwardly manifest in you…[Read more]

@dragon-snapper Good set of focusing questions and answers there. I like the diversity of answers. I presume you’re defining pride slightly-differently than most definitions in order to defend a positive use of it?