Dan Wells lecture on the 7 point story structure
Sorry about the weird music fading in and out?
The video was originally uploaded by someone else in ten minute chunks.
They included obnoxiously loud intro and outro music for some reason and couldn't find the original recording of Dan's talk without the music.
I just downloaded and combined those videos, and since no one has the original recording of Dan, the music persists as an artefact of the previous uploader.
Ideally, Dan would just record a version of this himself and post it, but until that happens, we've got this 12 year old recording with bizarre audio choices.
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
2:12 System overview
4:05 Outline - Resolution
6:24 Outline - Hook
8:35 Outline - Midpoint
10:01 Outline - Plot Turn 1
11:21 Outline - Plot Turn 2
14:56 Outline - Pinch 1 & 2
18:04 The story is not complete
18:53 The Hero's Journey
19:32 Romance
23:15 Tragedy
25:55 Horror
29:08 The "Ice Monster" Prologue
31:41 Try/Fail cycles
34:19 Subplots
40:40 Q&A
