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A free guided worksheet to uncover your story’s emotional engine, character stakes, and deeper thematic question.
Description
Getting started on your next story, novel, or memoir? Move beyond the premise and find the emotional engine that powers your story with the Five Whys story writing worksheet. The StoryMetric™ Five Whys Quick Sheet is a guided story-development exercise that helps you dig beneath your initial premise and uncover your story’s emotional drivers.
A strong story needs more than an interesting idea. It needs an emotional reason to exist. Using a simple sequence of five increasingly focused questions, you’ll move from what interests you about the idea to character stakes, internal pressure, beliefs, and values. Then you’ll dig deeper to uncover the thematic question at the heart of your story.
Inside, you’ll find a guided Five Whys process, a worked example, space to develop your own answers, and a Story Compass that helps you bring your discoveries together.
Use the Five Whys story writing worksheet when you’re developing a new story, questioning an existing one, preparing to revise, or trying to understand why a promising idea still feels flat—as though something is missing.
StoryMetric™ is Vanessa Riley’s systems-based approach to storytelling—helping writers discover not only what happens in a novel or memoir, but why it matters.
FREE digital download. Fillable PDF. For personal use only.
