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[Crystle Rike]

Iam thinking about starting a high school story that follows a group of friends, it is going to be realistic and not about gangs or love at first sight, I have thought of some high school struggles but I need more ideas, please drop some down below but the number 1 rule is

A lot of people have mental health issues like anxiety, depression, social anxiety, an eating disorder. It can be really hard to cope with this as well because of all the homework and exams and pressure.

That may be a useful way to think about your tech writing, but it is a definition of story derived from the world of drama. When I talk about story in the world of tech comm (or marketing communication, for the most part) I am not talking about drama, I am talking about general human communication about everything. Because story is not a special preserve of entertainment. It is how we communicate about everything.

Some might suggest that my mistake was choosing the wrong word, rather than failing to define story adequately. The data-driven world has a strong faith in the mot juste: the idea the there is one perfect word for every concept. But that is not how words work. Words cleave to the concerns of the day. Even where our vocabulary provides multiple words, they all tend to cleave to the same dominant concerns, rather than making clear and fixed distinctions.

These two stories dominate what we think of when we hear the word story. Yet neither of them are fiction. Neither of them have a hero, or a journey. Neither of them are drama. Nor could either of them be reduced to entries in a database table. They are the kinds of stories that we communicate with every day.

A large part of why we tend to discount this meaning of story, despite it being the dominant form of communication about absolutely everything all the time, maybe that our expression and consumption of these kinds of stories is more or less tacit.

As I commented in an earlier post, this is remarkable, when you stop to think about it, and it is also essential for efficient communication. If we had to unpack all the stories tacitly present in every word we use, we would never get anything said, and never understand anything that was said to us.

This tacit understanding of stories, which is the basis of our language, and which shapes the concerns to which our words cleave, is, I am convinced, the reason why the curse of knowledge exists. We forget that the words we use invoke stories, because we recognize their meanings instantly and tacitly. We cannot see that we need to tell a story because we are not conscious that we have invoked one.

The desire to remain fashionably in the realm of data is probably the reason we are more comfortable with the word content than story. Content reduces story to the role of storable and retrievable object: data.

But we are really in the story business. And if one thing should separate professional writers and communicators from the rest of the population, it should be their appreciation for the central and indispensable role of story in all communication, and their ability, in particular, to escape the curse of knowledge and recognize which stories need to be told.

I am an aspiring novelist and former technical writer and content strategist. On the technical side, I am the author of Every Page is Page One: Topic-based Writing for Technical Communication and the Web and Structured Writing: Rhetoric and Process. I blog at everypageispageone.com and tweet as @mbakeranalecta.

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In my professional role as a trainer I have just watched the BBC drama, "Doing Money". I felt sick and melancholy afterwards. Why? I was watching a human trafficking story which focused on the sexual exploitation of a woman kidnapped off the streets of London unlike many others who are groomed or duped. It is based on a true story and draws out the sordid and complex issues that impact not just on one individual's journey but many others who remain hidden in the UK. A chilling thought echoed in a cafe scene where traffickers and victims sat in plain sight amongst families and preoccupied customers ordering their flat whites.

Doing Money follows the terrible journey of Ana who was abused by countless men whether that was by her traffickers or "clients". The fabric of this plot weaves in themes of the emotional and psychological impact that deeply traumatises this woman's condition, even when she fought against this abuse. She paid a heavy price of violence, rape and abuse by her perpetrators. Unbearable to comprehend.

Again the drama helpfully brought together the frustrations of the police in gathering evidence, the quirk of circumstance or the numerous individuals who missed the signs and indicators of trafficking. In addition, the shallowness self-centred men's fantasies whether violently sadistic or pitifully weak and the sheer isolation and abandonment of a woman ostracised by her family just adds a layer of further misery.

While there is a drop of hope that sends a ripple of progress through this ocean of injustice, there is a note of caution as I sat still in stunned silence just before the credits rolled up. The film ends with updates. One recorded, that despite the persistent effort of the police, it was still hard to understand how a 3 year sentence was handed down for the traffickers caught in this story. How does this appropriately reflect the offences committed? It left me open to the thought, that at this point in time, if things are left the way they are, there is no guarantee that the justice hoped for will come about, which includes compensation for the victim. That is why Frank Field's MP interim report to the Government needs to be listened to and Hope for Justice still needs to pursue reforming society as part of its vision.I hope those who read his words below see sense!

However, the courage of this storyteller documented through this film whether driven by bravery, fear or desperation rids any sense of seeking a happy ending. Instead it offers the realistic resilience that regardless of how unpalatable this episode was to watch, justice found a way and in so doing led to renewed and increasing hope. The film leaves me no doubt that this frustratingly takes time and the pathway for a victim still remains imperfect and meandering but like a relentless river justice is allowed to flow. I just want it to reach those it hasn't reached yet but that is the powerful tension of being an abolitionist, where our imagination for justice has not relinquished.

Working with Television series story structure is often an eye-opener for many writers working with me for the first time. It can be surprising to learn just how much of my creative work is to do with identifying, highlighting and then handling structure. There are 3 distinct strata to my structural thinking when I am first getting to grips with your television stories:

Shape is the same word as structure in my mind. I do a lot of visualisation when I am working your ideas through with you. Every series although multi-stranded by definition and nature, has an internal shape that I identify as the bicycle wheel.

From this central point the story lines are generated and thrown out into the episode in a clear, focused way like spokes from the central point of the wheel. All stories are essentially cyclical and this wheel represents not only the path of the story lines through one episode but also of the series as a whole.

This is because it is through the interplay between Subtext and Text that we not only kick start the story engine, but keep that engine going through the duration of the series as a whole and also in a more focused way, through each individual episode.

In television the pace is controlled, but also driving and never in a good series drama, do we feel the pressure has been taken off the pedal. There needs to be a determined and continual push from beneath everything we see on screen which comes from the inner and beneath the surface workings of the subtext.

It is by the measured and conscious flipping between the Macro to the Micro viewpoint that the writer creates true engagement and brings to our screens an immersive experience. By controlling from whose view point, by which angle and therefore in what context we see the story at any one particular point, the writer is delivering to the audience (forming the ultimate Macro viewpoint) a compelling story told incrementally.

There are now 3 distinct ways you can work with me via my Development Packages. This is my mission; to bring out the best in you not only creatively but also to help you navigate the commercial requirements of a good series idea and ultimately to shape you and your work for the Industry. You can also sign up here for my Online Tv Writing School which runs twice yearly (current course full) and then if you want to learn a new skill and really get to grips with series narrative to improve your own writing and those of your fellow writers, join up for my Script Editing for Television Course which is currently over subscribed for November this year but will run again in 2020.

While it does deal with similar themes, this is no dirge, no Kramer vs Kramer. Marriage Story is surprisingly funny and light-hearted, especially in the first act. While it heaves dollops of sadness by the end, it also locates hope in this story.

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