This week, Fern and Julia go back to the basics as Fern teaches the class about story structure! We discuss Freytagian story structure (Freytag's Pyramid: Barely a Triangle™️), traditional vs. experimental structures, and linear and modular storytelling. When does a story benefit from a non-linear structure? What is the value of experimental storytelling? How does the structure of A New Hope differ from the structure of The Clone Wars? And what's up with the pacing of The Bad Batch?

On the Syllabus Today:

• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008-2020)
• The Bad Batch (2021)
• Alice LePlante, Method and Madness: The Making of a Story
• Bailey, Tom, editor. On Writing Short Stories. 2000. Oxford University Press, 2011.
• LePlant, Alice. Method and Madness: The Making of a Story. 2007. W. W. Norton and Company, 2007.

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