Essentials of Storytelling
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Preface
The importance of this collection is that it places three essential storytelling principles under one cover: the dramatic principle (code) found in every human psychology, weakness and need as seen and understood by its character developmental schema; lastly, the catalyst, which is better or more widely known as the inciting incident. Both your hero as well as what their drive is come into clear focus when they are placed within the notion of their entire developmental process, from psychological weaknesses revealed, and moral needs established, which takes place in act one where you establish your hero’s world and then plant the conflict in order to move the hero to re-establish balance in the shattered world of his inciting incident.
clefort
Clinton R. LeFort was born in Lake Arthur Louisiana, a small rural town in Southwest Louisiana in the United States. He began creative writing at age 6, in the form of poems, songs and news broadcast. After high school he attended USL, LSU and USC, where he continued his writing on philosophical, academic and religious topics. He began his own publishing company in 2006 after successfully writing 6 books which received Imprimaturs from the Archdiocese of St. Louis,Mo. Today Mr. LeFort has over 300 titles available for Kindle. He continues to read and write with a great interest in spirituality and mysticism of Catholic Saints.
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About the Author
Clinton R. LeFort was born in Lake Arthur Louisiana, a small rural town in Southwest Louisiana in the United States. He began creative writing at age 6, in the form of poems, songs and news broadcast. After high school he attended USL, LSU and USC, where he continued his writing on philosophical, academic and religious topics. He began his own publishing company in 2006 after successfully writing 6 books which received Imprimaturs from the Archdiocese of St. Louis, Mo. Today Mr. LeFort has over 170 titles available for Kindle. He continues to read and write with a great interest in spirituality and mysticism of Catholic Saints.
He has recently gone online at www.clintonlefort.com
He can be followed on Twitter at clintonrlefort and on Facebook at clinton.lefort
God is Love and he who abides in Love abides in God and God in hm.
God Alone suffices.
(St. Teresa of Avila)
Everything is a grace.
(St. Therese of Lisieux)
Preface
The importance of this collection is that it places three essential storytelling principles under one cover: the dramatic principle (code) found in every human psychology, weakness and need as seen and understood by its character developmental schema; lastly, the catalyst, which is better or more widely known as the inciting incident. Both your hero as well as what their drive is come into clear focus when they are placed within the notion of their entire developmental process, from psychological weaknesses revealed, and moral needs established, which takes place in act one where you establish your hero’s world and then plant the conflict in order to move the hero to re-establish balance in the shattered world of his inciting incident.
Introduction
This collection of essays is about the artistic paradigm of drama founded on the way human grow and develop their life. Authors like John Truby, Blake Snyder, Michael Tierno, Dan O’Bannon, Todd Klick, Dan Calvisi, Chris Huntley & Melanie Anne Phillips have situated this paradigm as founded on principles laid down by Aristotle and integrated into screenplay structure as story beats, story structure and story mapping. Each author presents the story canon founded in human nature from their different theories and story structures. Each of the authors mentioned has had numerous success in the movie industry and have either discovered these story structure paradigms thru their work as story analysts, script readers and analysts, screenwriters or teachers of the art of storytelling and structure. In this collection of essays, I only concentrate on the essential contributions of Blake Snyder, John Truby and Michael Tierno, while trying to keep open to the larger picture of storytelling as applied to all the authors. Sometimes this is not possible because of the different way these authors present their story structure