NARRATIVES & WRITING OUTLINES

Narrative – A structured conversation or story designed to guide thoughts, emotions, or actions toward an intended outcome.

Plot Mountain

A plot mountain is an outline that organizes narratives into easy to identify and analyze sections. It can be a powerful way to design solutions.

Exposition

The introduction and orientation to concerns, intentions and strategy that constitutes the “Action narrative”…

such as new threats, obligations or opportunities produced by marketplace drifts cause by changes in economics, politics, demographics or technology.

Conflict

The unsatisfactory situation that needs to be “fixed”, avoided or coped with in order to fulfill intentions, personal ambitions and / or business missions…

such as too little annual income, inability to compete for high enough margins or a need to adopt a new technology.

Rising Action

The commitments and planned sequence of actions that will be executed to produce a sequence of situations that progress towards the fulfillment of the offer…

and answers to all relevant questions beginning with who, what, where, when, why and how the action will performed to produce promised objectives.

Resolution:

The satisfactory situation that takes care of human career and business concerns…

that ends all reasons to continue further action to resolve the conflict

such as increased annual income, increased profit margins or the knowledge to exploit a new technology to produce competitive advantages.

Denouement

New future threats, obligations and opportunities produced by the resolution…

that open new opportunities for people to make new offers and proposals for their practices, leadership narratives and strategies

such as ways to further exploit a new technology or increase the value of an offer to maintain or increase competitive advantages.

How To

“How To”

The “How To” outline is INFLUENTIAL and used to capture and maintain the attention and time of humans in a way that changes their behaviors.

To be used during and after the “Mastery Course”

The “How to” Outline

I find this outline very useful when I already have the solution or the “How to do it” figured out, and I want to influence others, to include myself, to make and maintain positive changes in their life using these solutions.

If you’ve already done the work in the Life Mission map we use in “Mastery” you’ll find that you have everything you need to produce your narrative using this outline.

** Do NOT let the outline control the production of your narrative. Think of it as a series of prompts to help get you started and focus your thinking **

Step ONE: Outlining

Update the elements of the PART(S) of your map that you are working on:

[_] Impacts

[_] Parts

[_] Practices.

This alone gives you a complete narrative. The next step will help you refine and tighten it up to speak it more powerfully and succinctly.

Step TWO: Writing

[_] You can copy and paste the outline below and then use the impacts, parts and practices from your life mission map to fill it in.

Benefits: IMPACTS Positive

Name_of_the_part helps us xxxxx, xxxx, xxxxx.

Why this matters: IMPACTS Negative

When our Name_of_the_part is uncared for it will xxxxx, xxxx, xxxxx.

What is it and how does it work: PARTS

This typically reads as a high level overview. “To go on a road trip requires us to reference a MAP to plan our trip, identify a VEHICLE that is capable of the route chosen and a certain amount of MONEY to pay for the known and unexpected parts of the journey.

The Name_of_the_part, for our purposes here, is made up of xxxxx, xxxx, xxxxx.

And when these things are sequenced like xxxxx, xxxx, xxxxx. They will produce unexpected_result_here

How to do it: PRACTICES

This is where more detailed instructions occur. This is the “Standard Operating Practice” of each part identified in the above step.

Step 1: xxxxxxxxxx

Step 2: xxxxxxxxxx

Step 3: xxxxxxxxxx

Results: RESOLUTION

When you do those steps you’ll now have positive_impact, positive_impact, positive_impact, and no longer have to worry about negative_impact, negative_impact, negative_impact.

This will now allow you to what_is_now_possible.

Mini Dream Story: RESOLUTION (Their good life)

Which will now allow you to feel like…

…how_having_handled_Positive_and_negative_impacts_will_feel.