{"id":4399,"date":"2019-10-25T09:15:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T16:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/?p=4399"},"modified":"2019-10-25T09:15:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T16:15:25","slug":"writing-stories-with-a-collective-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/writing-stories-with-a-collective-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Stories with a Collective Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some novice writers become so wrapped up in interesting events and bits of action that they forget to have a central unifying goal that gives purpose to all the other events that take place.\u00a0 This creates a plot without a core.<\/p>\n

But determining your story’s goal can be difficult, especially if your story is character oriented, and not really about a Grand Quest.<\/p>\n

For example, in the movie “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” all the characters are struggling with their relationships and not working toward an apparent common purpose.\u00a0 There is a goal, however, and it is to find happiness in a relationship.<\/p>\n

This type of goal is called a “Collective Goal” since it is not about trying to achieve the same thing, but the same KIND of thing.<\/p>\n

So don’t try to force some external, singular purpose on your story if it isn’t appropriate.\u00a0 But do find the common purpose in which all your characters share a critical interest.<\/p>\n

Melanie Anne Phillips
\nCreator, StoryWeaver<\/p>\n

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Some novice writers become so wrapped up in interesting events and bits of action that they forget to have a central unifying goal that gives purpose to all the other events that take place.\u00a0 This creates a plot without a core. But determining your story’s goal can be difficult, especially if your story is character […]<\/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":[3,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-plot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p36xpN-18X","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399","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=4399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4400,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions\/4400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}