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皮克斯的讲故事法则（2013）
Pixar's Rules of Storytelling (2013)
2013 — 2018，它一次次回到首页
黑点是上首页（≥ 50 分）的那次投稿，空心点是没冲上去的投稿，点越大分数越高。
导读
这篇文章整理了皮克斯故事艺术家 Emma Coats 总结的 22 条讲故事法则，包括著名的“故事骨架”填空模板、“欣赏你努力的过程胜过成功”等创作心得。这些法则简明实用，多年来被广泛引用于写作、编剧甚至产品表达。
为什么经久不衰：它把复杂的叙事技巧浓缩成可操作的清单，跨越写作、游戏主持、产品演示等多个领域，多年后仍是创作者的速查经典。
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推荐“因此/但是”结构法，并赞赏“重写烂片”练习的价值
第 4 条让我想起《南方公园》主创 Trey Parker 的写作建议：把故事里所有的“然后”“但是”换成“因此”，故事结构会更好。第 20 条（把不喜欢的电影拆解重组成你喜欢的样子）是个特别棒的主意——要真正找出问题并修好它很难，但做起来一定很有教育意义。
dahart查看英文原文
> 4. Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___. This one reminds me of writing advice from South Park's Trey Parker: write better stories by figuring out how to replace all your "ands" and "buts" with "therefore". http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2015/05/the-key-to-story-structure-in-two-words-therefore-but.html > 20. Exercise: take the building blocks of a movie you dislike. How d’you rearrange them into what you DO like? This one strikes me as an especially great idea! Rewrite something bad to make it good. There are certainly some shows I've bitched about (like a lot of people) but I would have a hard time dissecting it to find what's wrong with it, and even harder time fixing it. Having to do it would certainly be educational.
讲故事的核心在于控制信息揭示的时机
JK 罗琳说过她把《哈利·波特》第一章写了约 20 个版本，如果把这些版本都读一遍，你会发现前几本书的所有主要情节线索都已埋在其中。讲故事不只是决定情节，很大程度上是关于如何安排细节揭示的节奏。
DoreenMichele查看英文原文
JK Rowling has said she wrote something like 20 versions of the first chapter of the first (Harry Potter) book and if you read them all, you would have known all the major plot points for the first several books. Storytelling is about more than just deciding the plot. It is very much about staging the reveal of details.
规则有用但易导致套路化，懂规则才能打破规则
我跑了好几年桌面 RPG 战团，这些规则对地下城主和作家都很有用。但它们也容易写出“浅薄但情绪抓人”的故事。把规则摆在明面上的价值在于知道何时打破它们：加入无用角色迷惑读者、让支线长成自己的故事、随意调整节奏等。
joe_the_user查看英文原文
I have been running a Pathfinder (table top rpg) campaign for the last several years. A lot of these rules are great hints for a dungeon master as well as for a writer. However, I think these rules can easily be "how to write a shallow but emotionally compelling story" (surprise, surprise). That said, having these rules on the table (so to speak) is useful for when you as story teller want to have something other than the obvious happen (ie, know the rules to break them). Try occasionally having extra, useless characters just to confuse people. Have detours and details that turn into their own story. Slow down or speed-up pace just for the heck of it. Let the players find ways to short-circuit all the apparent barriers and then have something different happen.
故事骨架模板同样适用于产品描述
“从前有___，每天___，直到有一天___，因为这样___，因为这样___，最终___”——这也是写产品定义的好方法。
tptacek查看英文原文
Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___. Also a good way to write a product definition.
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