How to make stories addictive by following one simple rule. It focuses on the art of crafting compelling narratives to engage an audience.
How to make stories addictive by following one simple rule. It focuses on the art of crafting compelling narratives to engage an audience.
This really simple rule that maybe you guys have all heard before, but it took us a long time to learn it. But we can take these beats, which are basically the beats of your outline, and if the words and then belong between those beats, you're [ __ ] Basically, you're got you got something pretty boring. What should happen between every beat that you've written down is either the word therefore or but. Right? So so what I'm saying is that you come up with an idea and it's like, okay, this happens, right? And then this happens. No, no, no, it should be this happens and therefore this happens. But this happens, therefore this happens. And that as soon as we are able to and literally sometimes we'll we'll write it out to make sure we're doing it. Uh we'll we'll have our beats and we'll say, okay, this happened, but then this happens and that affects this and that does to that and
that's why you get a show that feels like, okay, this to that to this to that, but this, here's the complication, to that. And there's so many scripts we read from new writers and and and things that we see >> God, I see movies Yeah, you Yeah, you see movies that you're just watching and it's like this happened and then this happens and then this happens. That's when you're in a movie and you're going, what the [ __ ] am I watching this movie for? You're just like this happened and then this happened and this happened. That's not a movie, you know, that's not a story. Like Trey said, it's those those two but because therefore that gives you the causation between each beat and that makes that That's a story.