A story is the telling of an event, which is crafted to the interest of audience members.
Key terms:
Exposition: information that grounds you in a story- who, where, when, why etc. It gives the audience the general tools they need.
Theme: general underlying subject, a recurring idea.
Arc: ways in which events of a story transform characters.
Plot and character: character driven is when actions emerge from the wants and needs of the characters. Plot driven is when characters are second to the events that make the plot.
Point of view: describes the perspective from which the story is told.
Telling detail: things such as ash trays etc.
Hannah Richardson, JDM 