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Contents

COVER

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT

DEDICATION

EPIGRAPH

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE: CREATING A WORLD

1.0 Where does a story begin?

1.1 Moments of change; the control-seeking brain

1.2 Curiosity

1.3 The model-making brain; how we read; grammar; filmic word order; simplicity; active versus passive language; specific detail; show-not-tell

1.4 World-making in fantasy and science fiction

1.5 The domesticated brain; theory of mind in animism and religion; how theory-of-mind mistakes create drama

1.6 Salience; creating tension with detail

1.7 Neural models; poetry; metaphor

1.8 Cause and effect; literary versus mass-market storytelling

1.9 Change is not enough

CHAPTER TWO: THE FLAWED SELF

2.0 The flawed self; the theory of control

2.1 Personality and plot

2.2 Personality and setting

2.3 Personality and point of view

2.4 Culture and character; Western versus Eastern story

2.5 Anatomy of a flawed self; the ignition point

2.6 Fictional memories; moral delusions; antagonists and moral idealism; antagonists and toxic self-esteem; the hero-maker narrative

2.7 David and Goliath

2.8 How flawed characters create meaning

CHAPTER THREE: THE DRAMATIC QUESTION

3.0 Confabulation and the deluded character; the dramatic question

3.1 Multiple selves; the three-dimensional character

3.2 The two levels of story; how subconscious character struggle creates plot

3.3 Modernist stories

3.4 Wanting and needing

3.5 Dialogue

3.6 The roots of the dramatic question; social emotions; heroes and villains; moral outrage

3.7 Status play

3.8 King Lear; humiliation

3.9 Stories as tribal propaganda

3.10 Antiheroes; empathy

3.11 Origin damage

CHAPTER FOUR: PLOTS, ENDINGS AND MEANING

4.0 Goal directedness; video games; personal projects; eudaemonia; plots

4.1 Plot as recipe versus plot as symphony of change

4.2 The final battle

4.3 Endings; control; the God moment

4.4 Story as a simulacrum of consciousness; transportation

4.5 The power of story

4.6 The lesson of story

4.7 The consolation of story

APPENDIX: THE SACRED FLAW APPROACH

A NOTE ON THE TEXT

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES AND SOURCES

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ALSO BY WILL STORR

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER