Story spine (Kenn Adams)

Eight short beats that turn any update into a story your audience can retell.

Definition

A simple eight-beat scaffold for any story: once upon a time, every day, until one day, because of that, because of that, until finally, and ever since then.

Step 1

Predict first

In one or two sentences, what do you think this concept means? Wrong is fine; the small struggle is what makes the answer stick.