Coarse & Core

Question 1

What are the basic components of a master work and how do these show up in the blueprint?

Answer 1

These are the four quadrants:
beginning, hook;
middle build part one;
middle build part two;
ending payoff.

In addition, there are the five Commandments: inciting incident; progressive complication, turning point; crisis; climax; and resolution.

Each of the five Commandments must be honored in the four parts. This gives us 20 core units.

The four quadrants and the five Commandments generate the 20 columns of the blueprint.

Question 2

What are the seven categories that define the rows of the blueprint?

Answer 2

Corval.
Core virtues.

Question 3

What are the the seven categories that define the rows of the blueprint?

Question 4

What are the the core features for the three governor and three generator genres.

Question 5

4. I reviewed the Governing Genres’ three planes of perception and the general features of each.
   [OTS, ATS, BTS]

Question 6

●5. I reviewed the Generator Genres’ three planes of conveyance and the general features of each.
[OTS, ATS, BTS]

Question 7

What is the four core framework?

Answer 7

Core need
CoreLife value.
Core emotion.
Core event

Question 8

What is the core need sometimes referred to in other frameworks?

Answer 8

Object of desire

Question 9

What source does story grid use to identify core needs?

Answer 9

Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs

Question 10

Provide eight examples of a core need

Answer 10

1. Survival
2. Safety
3. Individual sovereignty.
4. Connection.
5. Esteem
6. Recognition
7. Self actualization
8. Self transcendence

Question 11

Describe the role or function of core need in the story arc

Answer 11

It can be viewed as the spinal cord of the story. It’s obscured by more superficial wants. It’s a fundamental truth about avatar motivation, and which key avatars are typically in denial about. Because Courtney needs our universal, the protagonist success in fulfilling his or her creates a catharsis for the reader

Question 12

What is the CoreLife value in the four core framework?

Answer 12

Every story involves core values that are specific to that story. Moreover, every story has a yardstick that measures where the avatars actions are along the spectrum of these life values.
Example: life to death ; injustice to justice

Question 13

Identify a significance of a CoreLife value to the arc of the story. 

Answer 13

The core value describes the primary or global change from the beginning to the end of the story. Like Courtney needs, core values or universal and the contribute to your stories controlling idea.

Question 14

Name several examples of the spectrum of core values for various genres

Answer 14

1. Death to life.
2. Dishonor to honor.
3. Damnation to life.
4. Injustice to justice
5. Subjugation of freedom.
6. Hate to love.
7. Shame respect.
8. Impotence the power.
9. Failure to success.
10. Ignorance to wisdom.
11. Selfishness, to altruism

Question 15

Explain Core Need as it relates to the four core framework, and genre

Answer 15

Core emotions or universal and contribute to the stories, controlling idea. They are essential for the reader to fill something when reading the story, to become fully immersed in it, and find it compelling.

Core emotions include the following.

1. Excitement.
2. Fear.
3. Intrigue
4. Romance.
5. Triumph
6. Admiration.
7. Satisfaction
8. Pity.
9. Contempt.

Question 16

Which core emotion is considered to be the core emotion for two separate genres

Answer 16

Excitement.

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