Week 6 Lab: EmpoWord Notes

 

Week 6 Lab

    For this week's story lab, I decided to explore EmpoWord. Specifically, Chapter 2: Telling a Story.

Chapter Two: Telling a Story:

• Narration is an important aspect of storytelling and choices during narration can create an impactful beautiful and interesting story
• Important vocabulary words: characterization, dialogue, dynamic character, epiphany, flat character, mood, multimedia, narration, narrative pacing, narrative scope, narrative sequence, plot, pov, round character, static character, & tone
• scope refers to the boundaries of your plot: where/when does it begin and end? whats its focus?
• it is important with scope to drive a story and prune out extraneous situations
• You can say more by digging deep into a few ideas or events instead of trying to relate every idea or event
• The most impactful stories are those that represent something 
• In media res refers to starting your story with action rather than exposition (an antagonistic, imagistic, exciting scene)
• You can play with the pacing which is the speed/fluidity your reader moves through your story by moving more quickly through your events 
• The position from which your story is told will help shape your reader's experience (pov)
• When building characters it is important to understand that like description, characterization relies on the specificity
• Important questions to ask when building a character are: What kind of clothes do they wear? What do they look, smell, and sound like? -- These are direct questions
• There are also indirect questions such as; What's on their mind that they won't share with the world?
• It is important to experiment with voice and dialogue and also focusing on aspects beyond words
• Verbal communication is supplemented by inflection, tone, body language, and pace

Building Characters.

(Screenshot taken from Source: EmpoWORD)