Notes tagged “Story structure”

• Beginning, middle, and end part 4: Idea stories

  Apr 2, 2024  |  10 min

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  Note
  More mature than a scribble, but not yet what digital gardener Maggie Appleton calls an “evergreen” idea. A note may have taken a fair amount of time to develop. I think the idea has merit.
  (See digital gardening.)

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• Beginning, middle, and end part 3: Story types

  Mar 5, 2024  |  4 min

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  Note
  More mature than a scribble, but not yet what digital gardener Maggie Appleton calls an “evergreen” idea. A note may have taken a fair amount of time to develop. I think the idea has merit.
  (See digital gardening.)

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• Beginning, middle, and end part 2: In search of a useful framework

  Feb 6, 2024  |  8 min

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  Note
  More mature than a scribble, but not yet what digital gardener Maggie Appleton calls an “evergreen” idea. A note may have taken a fair amount of time to develop. I think the idea has merit.
  (See digital gardening.)

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• Beginning, middle, and end part 1: Aristotle misinterpreted

  Jan 2, 2024  |  2 min

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  Scribble
  An idea I'm just playing around with. I probably haven’t invested much time in it, and I'm not yet confident in my conclusions.
  (See digital gardening.)

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• Storytelling + UX design: tips from 7 years at Microsoft

  Dec 5, 2023  |  15 min

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  Note
  More mature than a scribble, but not yet what digital gardener Maggie Appleton calls an “evergreen” idea. A note may have taken a fair amount of time to develop. I think the idea has merit.
  (See digital gardening.)

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• Thesis, antithesis, and synthesis

  Sep 21, 2023  |  11 min

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  Note
  More mature than a scribble, but not yet what digital gardener Maggie Appleton calls an “evergreen” idea. A note may have taken a fair amount of time to develop. I think the idea has merit.
  (See digital gardening.)

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• Red herring plotlines and satisfying plot twists

  Aug 27, 2023  |  4 min

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  Note
  More mature than a scribble, but not yet what digital gardener Maggie Appleton calls an “evergreen” idea. A note may have taken a fair amount of time to develop. I think the idea has merit.
  (See digital gardening.)

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• Storytelling, neuroscience, and the rule of three: prediction and reward

  Jul 23, 2023  |  9 min

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  Note
  More mature than a scribble, but not yet what digital gardener Maggie Appleton calls an “evergreen” idea. A note may have taken a fair amount of time to develop. I think the idea has merit.
  (See digital gardening.)

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• Storytelling and the rule of three: trajectory and payoff

  Jul 4, 2023  |  11 min

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  Note
  More mature than a scribble, but not yet what digital gardener Maggie Appleton calls an “evergreen” idea. A note may have taken a fair amount of time to develop. I think the idea has merit.
  (See digital gardening.)

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• Storytelling with large-scale, complex bracketing structures

  Jan 20, 2023  |  7 min

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  Note
  More mature than a scribble, but not yet what digital gardener Maggie Appleton calls an “evergreen” idea. A note may have taken a fair amount of time to develop. I think the idea has merit.
  (See digital gardening.)

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• Creating story arcs with three-unit brackets

  Jan 12, 2023  |  5 min

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  Note
  More mature than a scribble, but not yet what digital gardener Maggie Appleton calls an “evergreen” idea. A note may have taken a fair amount of time to develop. I think the idea has merit.
  (See digital gardening.)

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• Creating meaning with two consecutive story units

  Dec 19, 2022  |  10 min

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  Note
  More mature than a scribble, but not yet what digital gardener Maggie Appleton calls an “evergreen” idea. A note may have taken a fair amount of time to develop. I think the idea has merit.
  (See digital gardening.)

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• Story structure and theme in Ira Glass’ anecdote and reflection

  Dec 7, 2022  |  8 min

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  Note
  More mature than a scribble, but not yet what digital gardener Maggie Appleton calls an “evergreen” idea. A note may have taken a fair amount of time to develop. I think the idea has merit.
  (See digital gardening.)

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• How Orson Scott Card’s MICE quotient maps to internal and external genres of narrative drive

  Nov 13, 2022  |  5 min

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  Note
  More mature than a scribble, but not yet what digital gardener Maggie Appleton calls an “evergreen” idea. A note may have taken a fair amount of time to develop. I think the idea has merit.
  (See digital gardening.)

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• Applying scene sequel format to story structure

  Oct 24, 2022  |  6 min

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  Note
  More mature than a scribble, but not yet what digital gardener Maggie Appleton calls an “evergreen” idea. A note may have taken a fair amount of time to develop. I think the idea has merit.
  (See digital gardening.)

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• The three underlying functions of inciting incidents

  Jul 23, 2021  |  10 min

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  Essay
  An idea I’m proud of. Although my writing here may still have rough bits and need occasional pruning, these are the ones I feel have “stood the test of time.”
  (See digital gardening.)

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