| You can change the terminology used by Power Structure at any point, for all your stories, or on a
project-by-project basis. Thus, when writing a novel, this section would be labeled as
Chapters, in a film, they might be Sequences or Journey Stages, or whatever you'd like.
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If
one looks at a story from the top down, you'd start with a Theme
or Premise that encompasses the entire story. Below
that, you might find Aristotle's Three Act Structure.
Under that, would be a Chapter if you were writing a novel;
a Sequence, Scene, or TV / Stage Play Act if you were writing for film, television or
the stage and using its terminology; or perhaps a Journey
Stage if you were working using the ideas of Joseph Campbell
and Christopher Vogler's Hero's Journey.
Regardless of what you call it, this
Sequence allows you to group together
a series of Story Beats and has useful questions to
help ensure that this Chapter or Sequence has a strong focus and story movement, and that
you actually accomplished in it all that you set out to do. |
