- What primal [[want]] does the [[story]] promise to fill? - What point of view does the story have that is different from other stories? - Are there [[people]] who come [[together]] in this story who we've never seen come together before? - Is the story about a [[problem]] that pits two things from our [[mind]] against each other in a balanced [[dilemma]]? collapsed:: true - - Is this story for a particular (at least one thousand) [[group]] of people? Does it know their expectations? - Is the story about something that seems to be contradictory? - Does each part of the story have something in it that people will want [[cheer]] for every day? - Is there someone that people will want to follow and cheer for every step of the way? - Is the story set in a place where people can and do win or lose at any time? Is everyone free to fail a lot? - Will this story bring people from many different walks of [[life]] [[together]]? - Are there [[predators]] and natural [[disasters]] in the story that might come around at any [[time]]? - Will the people in the story be bound together to do things together all the time? - Can the people the audience might care about most lose something dear? - Will there be little wants that the people in the story will get in every part of the story? - Is all of the [[fun]] of the promise of the story shown in the first part of the story? - Are there pictures we haven't seen before? - Is there something so surprising that people will tell their friends about the story? - Does the first part set things up for later? - Is there something that people don't expect at the end of the first part? - Do the people in the story show weakness in a way that is relatable? - Do the people in the story have public masks that conflict with private roles? - Does each person in the story have a set of rules that they follow? - Without thinking about it, does a person in the story have one way they like to move in response to whatever happens? - Consider using [[personality]] inventory traits. - Without thinking about it, does a person in the story have one way that they like to fight? - Is there something the person in the story does again and again that gets in their way? Something that, once they stop doing it, ends the story? collapsed:: true - Whatever they are compelled to do, does it play well with the dilemma of the story? - Is the person of the story good at living their [[role]]? - Do the people in the story each have a special [[skill]] they use to fix their problems that other people don't have? - Do all the people in the story try their best to follow what they [[want]] instead of what other people want? - Can almost everyone make decisions? - Does each person in the story structure their [[language]] in a way that reflects the way they live? - Is there at least one person in the story who is a herald of conflict? - Do their [[backgrounds]] have to be forcefully pulled out of them? - Does the story have one story that ends and another that cliffhangs? - Is it hard for the people in the story to want to solve the [[problem]]? -