{"id":3159,"date":"2018-02-27T11:02:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T19:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2018-03-01T09:46:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T17:46:57","slug":"the-four-stage-of-story-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/the-four-stage-of-story-development\/","title":{"rendered":"The Four Stages of Story Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><em>By <a href=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/melanie-anne-phillips-an-introduction\/\">Melanie Anne Phillips<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Authors differ in many ways in how they approach the creation of a story, yet there are four stages in the process through which each author must travel:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">1.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Inspiration<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">2.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Development<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">3.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Exposition<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">4.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Storytelling<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In the <b>Inspiration<\/b> stage, you come up with your basic ideas for your Plot, Characters, Theme, and Genre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In <b>Development<\/b>, you flesh-out these ideas, adding details and making all the bits and pieces work together in harmony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In<b> Exposition<\/b>\u00a0you determine how to reveal your narrative to your readers or audience over time, story point by story point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In\u00a0<b>Storytelling\u00a0<\/b>you establish your style, pacing, and voice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong style=\"font-style: italic;\">Also from Melanie Anne Phillips:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"obi_random_banners_posts\" class=\"obi_random_banners_posts\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Man-Made-First-Hour-Event-ebook\/dp\/B09WYXMFBV\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-27-3.58.58-PM.png\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Melanie Anne Phillips Authors differ in many ways in how they approach the creation of a story, yet there are four stages in the process through which each author must travel: 1.\u00a0 Inspiration 2.\u00a0 Development 3.\u00a0 Exposition 4.\u00a0 Storytelling In the Inspiration stage, you come up with your basic ideas for your Plot, Characters, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story-development"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p36xpN-OX","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3159"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3176,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions\/3176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}