SUPER SKILL RESOURCES
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PRINCIPLE 2
ELEMENTS OF STORYTELLING CHECKLIST & WORKBOOK
The hands-on companion to the book’s storytelling framework.
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PRINCIPLE 3
VONNEGUT’S SHAPES OF STORIES LECTURE
Man in Hole: Character falls into trouble, climbs out, ends up better for it.
Boy Meets Girl: Character finds something wonderful, loses it, then gets it back forever.
From Bad to Worse: Character starts poorly and things deteriorate with no hope of improvement.
Which Way Is Up?: Ambiguous story where you can never tell if new developments are good or bad.
Creation Story: Humankind receives incremental gifts from a deity, building from earth and sky down to sparrows and cell phones.
Old Testament: Humankind receives gifts from a deity, then is suddenly cast out in a catastrophic fall.
New Testament: Humankind receives gifts, gets cast out, but then achieves off-the-charts bliss.
Cinderella: Incremental rise, sudden magical peak, devastating loss, then ultimate restoration to even greater heights.
PRINCIPLE 8
IN THE LAB
LAZERGPT
My AI storytelling bot is coming soon. The approach I wrote about in the final chapter of the book didn’t quite work, so I’m trying a new approach — and I’m very excited to share it with you.
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