22 steps

As the title goes, 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller, here are my 22 steps to my story. They're still coming along, but I like how it's flowing so far. Its a challenge to get all the details together, but I find it rather fun more than anything.


1. Self-Revelation, Need, and Desire: self revelation-
Self revelation- J realizes that she needs to open her eyes, change her attitude and get to the bottom of the changes in her life or she’ll lose it.
Need- To overcome the obstacles put in her path so she can find out what happened to her.
Desire- To find out the reasons of what is happening to her and around her.

2. Ghost and story world-
Ghost- In younger years when J lived in the States, she was bullied. She always wanted to fight back but she was so small and no one took her seriously. Everyone took advantage of her for being too nice. When she moved to Japan, she was convinced she was going to train under a Sensei or a ninja master (her kid dream) to become tough. But in reality she was taught by a neighborhood monk to be carefree and loving. So she never became tough, she just learned to look past it and live carefree and loving.
Story world- New York City, deep within a collection of regular looking buildings, but is a different world of technology, rules, and people.

3. Weakness and need
Weakness- J is kindhearted, giving, and loving. All maybe too much for her own good.
Need- She needs to take control of her life and attitude.
Problem- She is walked all over and considered to be too nice and too relaxed

4. Inciting Event- J finds out that the girl who gave her the chip was Sam, her now partner.

5. Desire- To find out what the chip really is and why it was given to her.

6. Ally or allies- Maximillion, Demitria, Bato

7. Opponent and/or mystery- Sam turns out to be the girl who injected J with the data chip. At first it was told to J by Sam as a piece of information claiming it a mistake, Sam not taking the blame for it. Sam turned out to be J’s partner, protecting her and watching over her. As the story goes on, it is revealed that she does it on purpose for reasons unknown.

8. Fake-Ally Opponent- Sam

9. First Revelation and Decision: Changed Desire and Motive-
revelation- Sam confesses to giving J the chip and claims it was an accident, but Maximllion- Sam’s former partner- says that it was all planned and there is more behind it.
Decision- J decides not to tell Sam she knows that she may have done it on purpose and stay partners with her.
Changed desire- To stay close to Sam to get closer to the truth about her and what is really going on about everything.
Changed motive- J is getting suspicious of all of Sam’s actions towards her and everything else.

10. Plan- J plans to discover the truth about the data chip, and why Sam and others are after her.

11. Opponents Plan and Main Counterattack-
      Opponents plan- Sam has to pick a source to inject a “special data chip” in, lure them into thinking that R.A.I.S is not what it really is, convince them to come to the “other side” which is the opponent company of R.A.I.S, and fight against them.
      Main Counterattack-

12. Drive- J’s drive is to find out why Sam is lying to her and why she put the chip inside her.
13. Attack by ally-
14. Apparent defeat-
15. Second Revelation and Decision
16. Audience Revelation-
17. Third Revelation and Decision-
18. Gate, Gauntlet, Visit to Death-
19. Battle-
20. Self-Revelation-
21. Moral Decision-
22. New Equilibrium-