#Oedipus #story #template "What is the creature that walks on four legs in the morning two legs at noon and three in the evening?" Before I go into the heroine’s journey (on the wheel) and non-linear structures (on the wheel), I would like to show you that the Intuitive screenwriting wheel works as an Intuitive (archetypal) storytelling wheel. This structure I am talking about is universal and can be used for creating any story, for film, theater or even novel. Whenever we ha

#screenwriting #storytelling #story #Truby I ask my students this provocative question quite often, and if you are just getting into film, it's actually the most important question, to which you need to give yourself a sincere and clear answer. Especially because an incredibly large number of people, and more and more every day, write and want to write for film. Does everyone know what exactly they are getting into? Is screenwriting glamorous or hard work? Is it the hardest o

#storytelling #story #archetype #storyelements Wherever you look, with whomever you speak, whatever you buy or read or watch (whether it’s art or not), someone is telling you a story, or you’re telling a story to someone. "You would not believe what happened to me today…” Blogs and marketing equations are full of tips on how to sell a story rather than just a product because they claim that nowadays buyers are rarely buying only a product. Good, archetypal yet untold narrativ

#story #writing #screenplay #theaterplay #archetype For every single writer (screenwriter or a playwright) the first and most important question is always, “what am I going to write about?” Young filmmakers ask me this question again and again: “what is the perfect story for me in this moment of my life?” The answer is not a straight-forward one. The choice should be wise, elegant, obvious, relevant and important for you and for the audience, and it should be yours and yours