Hello and welcome to my latest ‘A Dive Into Darkness’ posting.
In my previous post I looked at ‘Weakness, Need and the Running Start.’
In this post, again using John Truby’s 22 Steps as my template, I will focus on ‘Desire’ in ‘A Dive Into Darkness.’
https://desertscreenwritersgroup.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/anatomy-of-story.pdf
This is how Truby describes ‘Desire’.
Hero’s particular goal.
Provides spine of the entire plot.
Start the goal at a low level and increase importance of desire as story progresses.
If started too high, then story can’t build and plot will feel flat and repetitious.
But be sure you don’t create an entirely new desire.
Rather the intensity and stakes of the original desire.
Part of story success is based on levels of desire a hero has.
A low desire throughout the story reduces hero and makes complexity of plot impossible.
Levels of classic desire lines from lowest to highest:
• Survive (escape)
• Take revenge
• Win the battle
• Achieve something
• Explore a world
• Catch a criminal
• Find the truth
• Gain love
• Bring justice and freedom
• Save the republic
• Save the world
In ‘A Dive Into Darkness’, Anne-Sophie ticks all those ‘Desire’ boxes.
Next time, I will look at ‘Ally and Allies’ in ‘A Dive Into Darkness’.
Regards,
Paul