Michael Hauge 6 stage plot structure for story's
Michael Hauge 6 stage plot structure for story's
SInce i'm writing the manuscript independently in Word I'm not interested in using Causality to actually format the manuscript. What I'm doing is using Causality as a "notational" story outliner to unwrap all the exiting subplots and character journeys as an exercise in how well I had adhered to Michael Hauge's story structure and get an overview of how the beats of the novel are holding together so far.
I have a complex multi-protagonist story with foretelling, plot threads, etc between four main character arcs, so it's not a simple "one hero main character" journey. I'm using a lane per major character to sort out the outer journeys, and the emotional beats are divided into Hauge's stages. The stages are Causality's story blocks, and I have convention Chapters outside of that, and my own section definitions as "Parts".
Opinions? Tips? Anyone try to do this before? Here's a whiteboard exported so far for a bit of the first couple of chapters and a publicly available Hauge Story Structure clip.
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02-07-2024, 06:27 PM #1I've got a novel half converted from a feature screenplay I wrote.
SInce i'm writing the manuscript independently in Word I'm not interested in using Causality to actually format the manuscript. What I'm doing is using Causality as a "notational" story outliner to unwrap all the exiting subplots and character journeys as an exercise in how well I had adhered to Michael Hauge's story structure and get an overview of how the beats of the novel are holding together so far.
I have a complex multi-protagonist story with foretelling, plot threads, etc between four main character arcs, so it's not a simple "one hero main character" journey. I'm using a lane per major character to sort out the outer journeys, and the emotional beats are divided into Hauge's stages. The stages are Causality's story blocks, and I have convention Chapters outside of that, and my own section definitions as "Parts".
Opinions? Tips? Anyone try to do this before? Here's a whiteboard exported so far for a bit of the first couple of chapters and a publicly available Hauge Story Structure clip.
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