AGENDA - DAY ONE
Session One:
The critical four questions about your main character
Ensure your main character fulfills his or her story destiny by transitioning through each of the four archetypes
Construct a compelling ‘QuickPitch’ (aka, the ‘elevator pitch’) that lays out your entire story from start to finish
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LUNCH BREAK
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Session Two:
Determine the thematic question, thematic argument, and thematic synthesis of your story
Incorporate thematic opposites into your story through characters, props, and architecture.
Use the Unity of Opposites to align both the positive and negative characters with theme.
Create your cast of as many as 14 characters, both positive and negative, that inform and amplify your hero and villain
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AGENDA - DAY TWO
Session One:
Work through the 12 foundation plot points of act one.
Craft a Central Question that charts your hero’s physical, emotional, and spiritual journey.
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POOLSIDE WORKING LUNCH (brown bag it, we've got work to do!)
Chart a story course with approximate page counts for the 12 major landmarks of your story
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Session Two:
Use the Central Question to craft the plot points of act two so that they build upon each other in an organic, can't-stop-reading fashion
Build act three using the four essential plot points
Tearful farewell, with optimistic looks to the future
Wasting no time, the geniuses (and all around good guys) over at Mariner Software have shared with me their plans to push a Contour for iPad app through their development process. Â This will be in addition to the very, very, very forthcoming Contour for iPhone app.
I still work off the papyrus handouts you gave out at the original TW workshops!
Beautiful!
This would be great!
When? It’s the end of June, still no Contour for iPad. Contour for iPhone just too small in scale to be of much use other than jotting ideas.
When?????? Can’t wait 🙂
I know! I desperately want this one, too. Mariner Software?! YOU LISTENING?!?!?!?
Hello test, test … Come in, Rangoon … !
Where are we on the iPad version of Countour, guys/gals? How about either a 1.0 verrsion in the App Store or an update here? Need beta testers?
Final Draft is apparently in final test stage for their iPad app. On their website they have smartly put a link where individuals can express their interest in the iPad version of FD8, and will receive an e-mail from the FD folks when the app is available. Thanks.