Terry Jia

Story structure for screenplays and stage plays (故事结构) — merged from Syd Field's paradigm and plot points, Blake Snyder's Save the Cat beat sheet and board, Robert McKee's Story (event/scene/sequence/act, inciting incident, progressive complications, crisis-climax-resolution, subplots, story triangle), Julian Hoxter's nine-beat model, Neill Hicks' three acts as attraction/anticipation/satisfaction, and Lu Jun's Chinese short-play structure (凤头猪肚豹尾, 起承转合, eight openings, eight endings, 入戏要快/脉络要清/高潮要高/转变要顺/变化要多). Use when outlining a script, placing plot points and midpoint, fixing a saggy second act, designing an opening or ending, diagnosing "nothing happens", choosing between linear and non-linear designs, or converting a premise into beats and cards.

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Organic story anatomy from John Truby's The Anatomy of Story (有机结构/设计原则/22步骤/道德议题/四角对立/幽灵/场景编排) — the designing principle (story process plus original execution), the seven key steps as the organic spine, all twenty-two steps with the middle-act machinery the beat sheets lack (ghost, fake-ally opponent, plan, opponent's drive, ally's attack, fake defeat, three revelation-and-decision pairs, audience revelation, visit to death, moral decision), four-corner opposition, the moral-argument chain with the hero-opponent power-balance rule, scene weave with structure-step tags and storyline numbers, and the accordion rule (never fewer than seven steps). Kept side by side with the Field/Snyder page maps. Use when the middle act sags into unconnected episodes, when the premise works but the story feels mechanical, when one antagonist cannot carry the theme, when the theme stays stated instead of acted, or when a BS2 board needs an organic second pass.

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