Hi Tyler just wanted to say your video was amazing and it would be really Cool if you could make Us more story-circle videos like as a visual-aid. I'd love to see you making more of these videos! 😁

A Few Good Men was also not even remotely Aaron Sorkin's first script. He wrote several plays and screenplays before that. That's how you get to that level.

Thanks man. Appreciate the communication. Real great.

well, you were probably too scared to start. so you kept looking for someone to tell you what to do. i think most people could relate to that. my question would be: if you didn't have all these tips... what would you want to say? and a story, i think, is just a platform for people to give a voice to... what's on their mind and what they have to say about it. i think we are also scared on being judged. it is a matter of self esteem. our identity is potentially challenged or threatened as we may fail, be ridiculed, rejected, etc. especially when we are trying to be vulnerable and bringing our social guards down to tell a story. an enormous amount of effort can be crushed under the weight of it. i think we all realize that, even if we can't quite put our finger on what the reasons might be. but i also like to look at storytelling like cooking. it doesn't have to be michelin. it doesn't have to be novel. it doesn't have to be perfect. it doesn't have to be something that everyone likes. and it doesn't have to be something that you have to even offer to anybody. it can just be for yourself. for the love of the craft. and, maybe, one day, others will try your cooking and think it could use a few tweaks or it isn't to their taste... but i bet you can cook a lot better than most people by that point. and you can start chasing sorkin or whoever once you have are stronger and more confident. i saw a comment recently on shaelinwrites... they were quoting something along the lines of: a writer doesn't learn to write novels. they learned to write the last novel. and now they are learning how to write their newest novel... it is a seemingly never ending process of discovery.

I think i get ur point but you said 'every writer thinks their first scripts needs to be their A Few Good Men' but then also say 'creating a body of work overrated'. Isn't that the point of what you're saying? That you need to build up a body of work, bad or good, then you can get your A Few Good Men?

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I was half way through writing the same thing when I thought I'd better check the comments. I agree. Walter White's want to get money via meth doesn't exist without the inciting incident of the cancer diagnosis. Same with Matt Damon's character getting stuck on Mars, which creates his want to return home. Maybe the "want" on this diagram would be better labelled as the inciting incident?

@@S3aChange I think that is an irrelevant question and I hope that doesn't sound condescending. From my understanding I would say the Want is whatever the character wants given the context. It can be born from the inciting incident, and the inciting incident can be born from the want. Or not. If a character wants to go on a road trip for "new experiences" and then they find a monster, the want causes the inciting incident but the inciting incident is also the Get and the Pay. They have to come to terms with the fact that monsters exist and that they are in danger. That's the Adapt but it came after the Get and the Pay. Most of the story they now just want to survive and they get that because they don't die but they have to suffer through monster attacks. Maybe their friends die. And then in the second half their Want becomes to kill the monster instead of just survive and escape. That's kind of an Adapt and the Return. Then they Get the monster to fall for their traps but it doesn't work how they expected (Pay), they then Adapt to the failing plan, finally kill the monster (Get) having then suffered in the process (Pay) and once the monster is dead they Return home but traumatized (Changed). You don't need to follow the circle around, just understand to incorporate them at every step. That's why he wants you to go write because then you can see where your stories fall flat. That's when you look at the wheel and ask "what element am I not using?" So my advice is to go write something bad and then figure out where you need to incorporate one of the circle elements. Does that make sense?

The Inciting Incident FORCES the Protagonist in an Unfamiliar Situation