Storyform for "In Her Shoes"

CHARACTER DYNAMICS:

• MC RESOLVE: Steadfast
• MC GROWTH: Start
• MC APPROACH: Be-er
• MC PROBLEM-SOLVING STYLE: Logical
• IC RESOLVE: Change

PLOT DYNAMICS:

• DRIVER: Action
• LIMIT: Optionlock
• OUTCOME: Success
• JUDGMENT: Good

OVERALL STORY (Feller Family Estrangement)

• THROUGHLINE: Situation
• CONCERN: The Past
• ISSUE: Destiny vs. Fate
• PROBLEM: Self Aware
• SOLUTION: Aware
• SYMPTOM: Projection
• RESPONSE: Speculation
• CATALYST: Fate
• INHIBITOR: Senses
• BENCHMARK: The Future
• SIGNPOST 1: The Past
• SIGNPOST 2: The Future
• SIGNPOST 3: How Things are Changing
• SIGNPOST 4: The Present

MAIN CHARACTER (Rose Feller)

• THROUGHLINE: Manipulation
• CONCERN: Developing a Plan
• ISSUE: Sense of Self vs. State of Being
• PROBLEM: Desire
• SOLUTION: Ability
• SYMPTOM: Projection
• RESPONSE: Speculation
• UNIQUE ABILITY: State of Being
• CRITICAL FLAW: Evidence
• BENCHMARK: Changing One's Nature
• SIGNPOST 1: Conceiving an Idea
• SIGNPOST 2: Playing a Role
• SIGNPOST 3: Developing a Plan
• SIGNPOST 4: Changing One's Nature

IMPACT CHARACTER (Maggie Feller)

• THROUGHLINE: Activity
• CONCERN: Understanding
• ISSUE: Conditioning vs. Instinct
• PROBLEM: Self Aware
• SOLUTION: Aware
• SYMPTOM: Actuality
• RESPONSE: Perception
• UNIQUE ABILITY: Instinct
• CRITICAL FLAW: Prediction
• BENCHMARK: Obtaining
• SIGNPOST 1: Understanding
• SIGNPOST 2: Doing
• SIGNPOST 3: Obtaining
• SIGNPOST 4: Gathering Information

MAIN VS. IMPACT STORY (Sibling Rivalry)

• THROUGHLINE: Fixed Attitude
• CONCERN: Memories
• ISSUE: Falsehood vs. Truth
• PROBLEM: Inequity
• SOLUTION: Equity
• SYMPTOM: Projection
• RESPONSE: Speculation
• CATALYST: Truth
• INHIBITOR: Situation
• BENCHMARK: Innermost Desires
• SIGNPOST 1: Impulsive Responses
• SIGNPOST 2: Innermost Desires
• SIGNPOST 3: Contemplation
• SIGNPOST 4: Memories

ADDITIONAL STORY POINTS

• GOAL: The Past
• CONSEQUENCE: Memories
• COST: Understanding
• DIVIDEND: Developing a Plan
• REQUIREMENT: The Future
• PREREQUISITE: Innermost Desires
• PRECONDITION: Obtaining
• FOREWARNINGS: Changing One's Nature

VOCABULARY:

Ability: being suited to handle a task; the innate capacity to do or be

Action: in terms of the Overall plot, actions force decisions

Activity: an activity or endeavor

Actuality: objective reality; the way things are

Aware: being conscious of things outside oneself

Be-er: Rose Feller prefers to work things out internally

Change: Rose Feller changes her essential nature while attempting to solve the problem

Changing One's Nature: transforming one's nature

Conceiving an Idea: coming up with an idea

Conditioning: responses based on experience or training

Contemplation: present considerations

Desire: the motivation toward something better

Destiny: the future path an individual must take

Developing a Plan: visualizing how an existing idea might be implemented

Doing: engaging in a physical activity

Equity: a balance, fairness, or stability

Evidence: information supporting a belief

Falsehood: that which has been shown to be erroneous

Fate: a future situation that will befall an individual

Fixed Attitude: a fixed attitude or outlook

Gathering Information: gathering information or experience

Good: Rose Feller ultimately succeeds in resolving her personal problems

How Things are Changing: the way things are going

Impulsive Responses: innate responses

Inequity: an unbalance, unfairness, or lack or equality

Innermost Desires: basic drives and desires

Instinct: intrinsic unconditioned responses

Logical: Rose Feller uses inherently logical (linear) problem solving techniques

Manipulation: a manner of thinking or demeanor

Memories: recollections

Obtaining: achieving or possessing something

Optionlock: the story climax occurs because all options have been exhausted

Perception: the way things seem to be

Playing a Role: temporarily adopting a lifestyle

Prediction: a predetermination of a future state of affairs

Projection: an extension of probability into the future

Self Aware: being conscious of one's own existence

Sense of Self: one's perception of oneself

Senses: sensory observations

Situation: a situation or environment

Situation: a logistic assessment of one's environment

Speculation: an extension of possibilities into the future

Start: regarding Rose Feller, the audience is waiting for something to begin

State of Being: one's true nature

Steadfast: Rose Feller ultimately retains her essential nature

Success: the original goal is achieved

The Future: what will happen or what will be

The Past: what has already happened

The Present: the current situation and circumstances

Truth: that which is actually correct

Understanding: appreciating the meaning of something