Story shapes

Kurt Vonnegut

shape of story with up and downs that give an overall "sense" of the story, but ambiguity and multiplicity of interpretations can make it difficult to recognize them (hamlet, vita nostra)

GIVE every character a goal even for a aglass of water

Mata Haggis: plot structure

Motivations

PARTANT DE LA MÊME BASE QUE DIALOGUES ET NPCs -> chaque personnage a une motivation interne et externe, va vers la motivation externe mais résout son arc en comprenant sa motivation interne

- Internal motivation pertains to something the character doesn't know they need
- External motivation applies to something they wish to change around them

Those motivations cause change!

Plot structure

Scene building

Motivation interne induit motivation externe des perso et conflit -> on construit les scènes selon leurs besoins (apprendre ou faire) -> quel conflit ? -> quel outcome

Goal of the scene: drama, traversal, combat, atmosphere…

Per scene:

• OBJECTIVE: what lead wants to achieve
• CONFLICT: what prevents it from happening
• OUTCOME: what happens then (yes but, yes and, no and)