Story Lab: Style (can be helpful for main project)

Boundless freedom is not always helpful.

Creative constraints - requirements and limitations we have to address to accomplish a goal.

• Iterative 
• Innovative 
• Understanding constraints can help us come up with solutions and advance in any fields.

What makes a hero?

•  Joseph Campbell
• mono-myth or Hero's Journey
• Cycle
• Status Quo
• Assistance
• Departure
• Trials
• Approach - face biggest ordeal
• Crisis - darkest hour
• Treasure - claims some treasure
• Result 
• Return
• New Life - change hero, outgrown old life
• Resolution
• Status Quo - nothing is the same

 How to build a fictional world

• rules, maps, lineage, cultures, universes, alt-universes, stories after stories
• change reader's perspective on the real world
• imagination and willingness to live in your own world is needed to start a novel
• Methods
• basic place and time, create a timeline
  
• what rules belong in this world
• what type of government, belief, weather, eat, how they treat their young and old, animals and plants looks, transportation
• what kind of conflict will the protagonist face

"Orwellian"

• George Orwell - 1984
• Orwellian = totaltarian
• Ministry of Love = torture
• Ministry of Peace = War
• Ministry of Truth = Propaganda
• Doublespeak - undermine the meaning of the word and corrupt the ideas of it
• War is Peace
• Freedom is Slavery
• Ignorance is Strength
• pretentious words to project authority
• Words in ads affect your behavior
• Language is the currency of politics
  

How to write descriptively

• Metaphor - "Billie's legs are noddles. The ends of her hair are poison needles. Her tongue is a bristly sponge and her eyes are bags of bleach."
  
• Cast a spell, induce senses vividly
  
• Taste, smell, touch, sight, hearing
• ability to make associations
• "The world was ghost-quiet, except for the crack of sails and the burbling of water against hull."
• sound
• "Love began on a beach. It began that day when Jacob saw Annette in her stewed-cherry dress," 
•  experience the story, imaginative

 Zombie nouns

• nominalizations
• help express ideas like perception, intelligence
• However, impede clear communication (lawyers, laws)
   

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