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A Quick Tip
from Melanie
Anne Phillips
creator StoryWeaver,
co-creator Dramatica
Relationship Baselines
Relationships
begin with a "baseline" and then evolve.
You will need to establish how your characters feel about one another at
the beginning of your story. Later,
in the Storytelling section, you'll describe the growth of these emotional
relationships over the course of the story.
Both
characters need not be present to establish a relationship between them.
You might your readers a look at one character's room where he keeps a
score of framed pictures of the second character, his female co-worker, in a
little shrine. Then, you describe
the second character's room where there is but a single picture of the first
character which has been made into a dart board.
It is obviously well-used due to the great quantity of dart holes.
There are three darts in it as another slams in to join it, thrown by the
second character.
One
character might write a story about the other for a newspaper or a school
report. A photo album might show
two people in a series of pictures over the years.
In Citizen Kane, the relationship between Kane and his wife is
established by a series of vignettes over the years in which the size of their
dinner table grows, moving them farther and farther away from each other.
Of
course, in real life most emotional relationships are not a single melody but a
rich and complex symphony. You may
want to develop a different specific means of revealing each aspect of a complex
emotional relationship, or you might prefer to have a single illustration that
reveals the complexity all at once.
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the story development process. You'll design the people who'll inhabit
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they go.
How They Work
Together
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