Can there be anything more dramatic than a story of revenge?! That initial stinging feeling of being unjustly wronged, the wicked and intensely private scheming that goes on as one plans what is dutifully owed the offender, and finally the execution of said sweet reward. Nothing is more universal than the satisfaction of one getting what one so rightly deserves.
But how does one go about constructing a story like this?
Filed under: Story Structure
In this month’s tip, the question is raised about whether or not you need to have all eight archetypal characters present when writing a story. Chris does a good job of explaining that it’s not as important to have all those 8 characters as it is to have all the elements those characters represent.
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If Characters are the Motivations of a story, and Plot the Methodologies of a story, and Theme the Means of Evaluating a story, then how is Genre the Purpose of a story?
I asked this question of Chris Huntley, one of the co-creators of the theory of Dramatica, yesterday. How can Action/Adventure or Romantic Comedy be [...]
Filed under: Story Theory
