The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
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Safety Versus Adventure
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Ground Versus Sky
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The Warm House
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the most advanced fantasy, myth, or science fiction story.
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dystopia and a utopia.
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The Terrifying House
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Cellar Versus Attic
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The Road
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STORY WORLD TECHNIQUE: THE VEHICLE
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Titanic
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Murder on the Orient Express
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The City
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COMBINING NATURAL SETTINGS WITH THE CITY
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City as Mountain
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City as Ocean
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City as Jungle
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City as Forest
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Miniatures
Clinton LeFort
Maquette
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Clinton LeFort
Remember when Bruce Wayne meets the thug Falcone in the underground bar and al the people of Gotham that surrounded him, those he corrupted and bought out. This is the subworld of Falcone, then there is the subworld of Dr. Krane who puts people in mental institutes. The subworld of Brue Wayne. The subworld of the head od Wayne Enterprieses. the subworld fo Max Ducard and ...
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“Values become condensed and enriched in
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the passageway between worlds.
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classic passageways are the rabbit hole, the keyhole, and the mirror
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wardrobe closet
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painting and the chimney
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computer ...
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First,
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literally gets your character from one place to another.
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Se...
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decompression chamber, allowing your audience to make the transition from the rea...
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This is essential in a highly symbolic, allegorical form like fantasy, whose underlying themes explore the importance of looking at life from new perspectives and finding possibilities in even the most ordinary things.
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filled with things and inhabitants that are both strange and organic to your story.
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The passageway to another world is one of the most popular of all story techniques.
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Technology (Tools) Tools are extensions of the human form, taking a simple capability
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A world is enslaving
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relationship of the three
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element...
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techn...
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Beginning
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out of balance,
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Endpoint
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the apparent utopia.
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perfection is only skin deep.
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psychological or moral disaster.
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highlight, or accentuate your hero’s weakness or draw it out in its worst form.
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Vertigo
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vertigo overwhelms him.
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Vertigo’s
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the killer uses the detective’s own weakness—his vertigo—as the main trick in getting away with murder.
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Casablanca
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