Belief Advanced Worksheet

Belief is a central concept in storytelling and relates intricately to theme.

In essence, a character starts as Who He Is as a result of some belief. His (or her) world is a reflection of that belief, allies are aligned because of the same belief and antagonisms are misaligned because of another belief.

The character's ordinary world represents the starting-belief and the new world represents the other belief and the character is pulled into the new world, where the starting-belief dissolves away and the character learns to believe in the other way.

On a superficial level, this seems like a religious type story structure - the character may start not believing (has lost his faith) and ends up believing (rediscovers his faith). But look a little deeper and you see that this covers a basic principle - for example, your character may start pro-government and end anti-government, or your character may start a romantic optimist and end a romantic pessimist.

Whatever belief your character starts with, the process of getting to the other belief is the same.

 

This requires that you first purchase, read and understand the principles within the
2100+ stage Hero's Journey / Transformation / New World template, which is a separate and distinct purchase.

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