The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller

by John Truby

The beginning of the scene should frame what the whole scene is about. The scene should then funnel down to a single point, with the most important word or line of dialogue stated last:

Good dialogue is always more intelligent, wittier, more metaphorical, and better argued than in real life.

The final scene then becomes, like the opening scene, a miniature of the entire story. The author highlights the thematic patterns one more time, and the audience realizes that this representation of characters is also the way of the larger world. In short, the audience has a thematic revelation.