Alright, guys, the first reviews have been posted on our website. I'd suggest still reading them, as I try to get into as much about storytelling as I possibly can.
Here's a quick snippet of my reviews for the curious:
Circuron by @qomarualamry9
The beginning of your story should accomplish these things:
Set the tone/mood
Introduce your character
Make readers sympathize with your character
Blake Snyder says it perfectly in his book, Save the Cat,
I call it the “Save the Cat” scene. They don’t put it into movies anymore. And it’s basic. It’s the scene where we meet the hero and the hero does something — like saving a cat — that defines who he is and makes us, the audience, like him.
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Dreaming a Dream by @yvettegustafsson
The best stories have characters that have these personal problems (things about them that they need to fix). Mr. Fredricksen of Pixar’s Up had to learn to move on with his life, to go out and make new adventures, to live in the present. He struggles with this all throughout the movie. He’s stuck in the past despite the fact that he’s out on an amazing adventure. He’s there, but he doesn’t even realize it. He doesn’t take the time to look around him.
Woody in Toy Story has to learn to accept the fact that Andy has other toys that he loves. Again, throughout the entire movie, he struggles with the need to accept Buzz as a friend, as an ally, and as a brother.
There is a real, concrete struggle going on, and they don’t just talk about it, they live it. We, as the audience, watch them live it. We’re not merely listening to them rant about how life is so unfair. We see them act and go through life, and we relate to them, we feel for them, we feel like we know them personally.
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