Let’s see if I can do Rule #4 for Star Wars: Episode 4 (the best Star Wars!!!) Doing this with multiple stories/movies, I think, will make it easier for the young writer to develop their own Rule #4 outline. A valuable exercise would be for students to fill out Rule #4 for a film or book they know well, with an eye for the characters, what they are afraid of, what motivates them, and what they need. I think this can be a powerful tool for young writers.Īs an ex-teacher, I can imagine many different lessons using Rule #4. If I had this much detail to a story before I started writing it, they would be much easier to write. Until finally, Nemo and his fish tank friends form a plan to escape from the fish tank and return to the ocean and reunite with his father. One day Nemo went to school with the other children.īecause of that Nemo decided to exercise his independence and swim into the open water, leading to Nemo being captured by a scuba diver and taken away from his home and his father.īecause of that Nemo’s father, Marlin, needed to face his fears and travel the sea in search of his son. Nemo was a special fish in that he was the only one of his brothers and sisters to survive an attack while he was still a fish egg.Įvery day he would stay at home under the protection of his father. Once upon a time there was a young fish named Nemo. So using Pixar Rule #4 still gives you tons of freedom to make each story different and unique. Each of my books deals with a different kind of internal conflict, different themes, different challenges. But I don’t think my books all seem to be duplicates of each other. It follows the standard 3-act structure originally proposed by Aristotle in his book Poetics, written a few years ago, in 355 BCE. If you’ve watched my video on plot design,, you’d know that I approach plot construction the same way for every story. There are countless ways in which your story will be different from your previous one. The thing that will make each story seem different is the characters, and the character arc, and the problems your protagonist is dealing with, and how you handle the Dark Night of the Soul (mini-lesson coming), and. This might seem kinda strange, because if you do this with every story you write, wouldn’t they all seem the same? NO. I’m going to talk about Pixar Rule #4, and here it is? Can you guess which one? Here, I’ll put my hand behind my back and stick out some fingers guess how many. What I wanted to talk about today was only one of the rules. I’m fond of this list because it has brief explanations. There are countless links on the Internet, so search away. Some may apply to you and some may not, but what’s important is for you to look at them and give them some serious thought. They are a fantastic list of advice for writers. These nuggets of sage advice have been coined the 22 RULES OF PIXAR. A Pixar storyboard artist, Emma Coats, compiled a list story wisdom she received over the years while working at Pixar.
The above paragraph is referred to as Pixar’s Rule #4.
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