Storycraft

Stories are about choices and choosing.

Storytelling

**Three Parts:** The setup. The confrontation. The resolution.

Narrative connecting of the dots--making sense of non-sense.

We will make up a story rather than live in confusion.

Telling the story is important for the teller as well as the listener.

In the context of social organizing and action, Marshall Ganz instructs us to tell a Leadership Story--the "Story of Me" before the stories of "We" and "Now".

To use this pattern you may use Storycraft Template.

digraph { layout=dot rankdir=TB overlap=false consentrate=true node [style=filled shape=box fillcolor=lightblue] Theme "Theme\nStatement" "Noun-Verb-Noun" Title Outline Topical Scenic "Shape of Story" node [style=filled shape=box fillcolor=green1] "Particular\nDesires" "Particular\nCharacter" Complication Frustration Action Consequences Setting Scene Crisis Climax Success Defeat Resolution Insight Denouement Theme -> "Theme\nStatement" -> "Noun-Verb-Noun" -> Title -> Outline -> {Topical Scenic} -> "Shape of Story" "Particular\nDesires" -> Complication "Particular\nCharacter" -> Complication -> Frustration -> Action Scene -> Consequences Setting -> Consequences Action -> Consequences -> Crisis -> Climax -> Success Climax -> Defeat -> Resolution -> Insight -> Denouement }

**Instructions for writing a story**

**Theme**: Instructions for writing a Theme

**Theme Statement** (Noun-Verb-Noun): Instructions for NVN.

**Title**

**Topical Outline**

**Scenic Outline**

**Shape of Story**

Sequence below may repeat

**Desires**

**Characters**

**Complication**

**Frustration**

**Action**

**Setting**

**Scene**

**Consequences**

End of repeating sequence

**Crisis**

**Climax**

**Defeat**

**Success**

**Resolution**

**Insight**

**Denouement**

For an example, a first attempt to use this pattern see Marc's Story.

See Storycraft Template

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Plot

Narrative Point of View

Insight: Invention is not innovation. Adoption may take more than a lifetime.

See Notes on Writing

DOT strict digraph rankdir=LR node [shape=box style="solid,rounded,filled" fillcolor=lightyellow penwidth=3 color=black] HERE NODE node [style="solid,rounded,filled" fillcolor=white penwidth=1 color=black] edge [style=solid penwidth=1 color=black] BACKLINKS NODE -> HERE node [style="dotted,rounded,filled" penwidth=1 fillcolor=white color=grey] edge [style=dotted penwidth=1 color=grey] HERE BACKLINKS NODE -> HERE STATIC strict digraph {rankdir=LR node [shape=box style="solid,rounded,filled" fillcolor=lightyellow penwidth=3 color=black] "Inventing Governing: 1" node [style="solid,rounded,filled" fillcolor=white penwidth=1 color=black] edge [style=solid penwidth=1 color=black] "Inventing Governing: Intro" -> "Inventing Governing: 1" node [style="dotted,rounded,filled" penwidth=1 fillcolor=white color=grey] edge [style=dotted penwidth=1 color=grey]}