being able to see both sides of a double-factor problem is not only a sign of well-rounded writing, but also a sign of personal maturity immature people are more likely to fall into one extreme

@PhoenixCrown

4 ай бұрын

Well said. It takes wisdom to accept that your way of doing something isn't the only or best way.

This is amazing! I've been working on a story where my main character broke free of a bad situation, gaining her independence. But she's become so dependent on her independence that it's become a toxic trait within her life. Now she has to realize that it's okay to open up and depend on other people from time to time. When I started this story, I didn't realize how far i could explore the two sides of independence. This video helped clear this up! Thank you!

Wonderful✨😍. I must say, that I really appreciate this new style of short video with a concise advice and example. The long ones where juicy, plentiful of information, but I almost never finished watching them. Because was too much information to process in a go.

.31k more subscribers since the first video this week! Before I encountered story grid. I'd intuited the idea of double factor problems at the on-the-surface level: beats and tropes need to be pushing the plot *and* character motivation. Story Grid helped me see how to expand that intuitive understanding to see it as an organizing principle: every avatar addressing the same problem helped me build on a core idea and--critically--not overdevelop elements that didn't serve that double factor problem.

I just discovered your channel and subscribed because of this video. I've never seen theme described like this and it made me rethink how I approach it. 👍

Interesting concept. It's amazing how we do this almost instinctively. We've seen this concept throughout television history - most notably in MASH Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen, when the character of Hawkeye is telling the Korean woman to keep her chicken quiet, but we find out that the chicken was actually her baby, and she killed it to save the busload of people. Another one would be the end of The Good Child, when the mother decides to let her child fall to his death, to save the cousin. It's not a new concept, by any stretch of the imagination, but having it given such a succinct title, and delivered in such an entertaining and informative way, is appreciated. Great video! 😁

I love all of these, but this one really blew my mind. Thanks!

Great advice. These short videos are on point. I learn something valuable in every one.

The baby story was a plot in the MASH finale!

a terrific video

WOW! This was mindblowing! I never thought of a plot from such an angle. I will definitely implement it into my writing. Thank you Story Grid for the advice. You've got yourself a new subscriber! :)

this was super helpful! Thank you!

Your advice was very helpful and I didn’t grasp on that concept until you explained it , and I have seen crazy rich asians maybe a couple of years ago but now you gave me a different lens to look into the movie storyline, this concept was something I wanted to include in my story, but I didn’t know the term, so having you explaining it , made my idea more clear, thank you very much. 😊

Very helpful! This makes me think about my theme in a different light--and how to best bring it out on the pages!

Very good! I learned a lot. Thank you.

Great video!

Another excellent video!

Not to be That Writer, but "What color is the sky?" is a double factor problem ;) No but seriously, this is a really interesting framework for looking at theme and really forcing your main character (and reader) to consider alternative perspectives. Thank you!

Holy crap...and congratulations 😂 You really got me thinking (and nearly throwing up) with your example. I've written scenes that almost made me puke and I knew I was doing something right.

1:27 reminds me of Tywin Lannister

I'd love to know who that writer thinks is denying those women their freedom and to which extent she agrees with a woman's choice to be a housewife and stay-at-home mom before it becomes "internalized misogyny".

@banjofangirl3458

6 ай бұрын

1. Men/authority 2. When the choice is something she doesn't want to make but the one she thinks she deserves, but she absolutely has the room to make the better choice for her -Not that girl in the video

@TheREALSimagination

6 ай бұрын

@@banjofangirl3458 That makes sense.

@kingofnone8565

3 ай бұрын

For women, the project of feminism is ultimately the rejection of innate femininity within oneself, in order to create a masculinized women. For the men it's the other way around. The goal is to make both of the sexes gradually alienated with one another, thus will be more vulnerable and easily controlled by the elites (the managerial class, the Gov, plutocrats, etc). It might be that movements like feminism and others were genuinely sincere, but the party's over when the powers that be coopted the movements, and repurposed them to further their own interests. Thus, in this way I kind of understand her point, in a way that it's OK to throw this society under the bus, especially if they perceived that the society is abandoning them and their kind, which some disillusioned, low-class men of the west are doing right now. That's how I make sense the grow and proliferation of whole MGTOW, inc.cel-dom and other communities. But anyhow, all this is just my personal view as an non-westerner. Thus it's definitely not free of ingrained subjectivity and biases.

trigonometry, what's the trip factor problem

Honestly I'm not even at the point of writting properly I want a method to help me just write start to finish

John Wick--totally agree!! 😂

How each character in crazy rich Asians are dealing with the double factor problem

When you asked when I should purposely suffocate a baby I immediately thought of the final episode of M*A*S*H where Hawkeye went insane after a baby was suffocated in order to keep everyone on the bus safe from the North Koreans.

Help! I can't think of a double factor, for the story I'm planning. Message I Want to Convey: Stop Wanting for other people's abilities, and being miserable about it. Do the best you can, with what you've got, and be happy with it.

@jjhh320

6 ай бұрын

Double factor: striving to be exactly like these other people has allowed the character to actually grow, be noticed, and improve; they may have knowledge, experience, resources...things they can legitimately be grateful for, even if their reasoning and mindset was a miserable one. It made them who they are too.

@jessehaubert

6 ай бұрын

@@jjhh320 That is an amazing idea! Thank you!

about the baby it might seem like the logical choice but a baby that small would be nursing i have been around babies it shuts them up im sure theology wouldn't be my thing it drove my dad crazy when he would giving me logic problems and i would look at it logically telling him what was with it why would a farmer want to take a fox in the boat it is easy for most people to pick 1 of the 2 choices given harder to see past them sometimes you can do both or a third thing JUST SAYING KEEP THIS IN MIND WHEN WORKING OUT THINGS MAYBE YOU MIGHT FINE A NEW PATH FOR YOU STORY

Is this the dilemma of the story, right?

Crazy Rich Asians was one of the worst movies I ever had to sit through, and you apparently loved it.

@StoryGrid

6 ай бұрын

Well the only obvious conclusion you could come to then is all of my advice is wrong. - Tim

@anthonycosentino463

6 ай бұрын

So all of your advice is based on that terrible movie?

not sure,,,, you keep alluding to wokeness.....

@kingofnone8565

3 ай бұрын

The dominant western religion of the day, mate. That's just how humans are. The unherded ones are few and far between, I guess 🤷🏻