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Indeks.
Chapter 1: Creating a world. ; Where does a story begin? ; Moments of change; the control-seeking brain ; Curiosity ; The model-making brain; how we read; grammar; filmic word order; simplicity; active versus passive language; specific detail; show-not-tell ; World-making in fantasy and science fiction ; The domesticated brain; theory of mind in animism and religion; how theory-of-mind mistakes create drama -- Salience; creating tension with detail ; Neural models; poetry; metaphor ; Cause and effect; literary versus mass-market storytelling ; Change is not enough ; Chapter 2: The flawed self. ; The flawed self; the theory of control ; Personality and plot ; Personality and setting ; Personality and point of view ; Cuture and character; western versus eastern story ; Anatomy of a flawed self; the ignition point ; Fictional memories; moral delusions; antagoinsts and moral idealism; antagonists and toxic self-esteem; the hero-maker narrative ; David and Goliath ; How flawed characters create meaning ; Chapter 3: The dramatic questions. ; Confabulation and the deluded character ; The two levels of story; how subconscious character struggle creates plot ; Modernist stories ; Wanting and needing ; Dialogue ; The roots of the dramatic question; social emotions; heroes and villains; moral outrage ; Status play ; King Lear; humiliation ; Stories as tribal propaganda ; Antiheroes; empathy ; Origin damage ; Chapter 4: Plots, endings and meaning. ; Goal directedness; video games; personal projects; eudaemonia; plots ; Plot as recipe versus plot as symphony of change ; The final battle ; Endings; control; the God moment ; Story as a simulacrum of consciousness; transportation -- The power of story ; The lesson of story ; The consolation of story ; Appendix: The sacred flaw approach.
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