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Yesterday we went over the 3 act structure again, but with some new information. Inside of the structure we have the motivation or why and the goals and what power can be acquired for the antagonist or protagonist. The motivation is flowing frequently throughout the entire story. Professor Jenkins also said that structure provides pressure, I’m not really sure what that means but I think it means that the 3 act structure keeps the story moving by going through phases and conflicts. Once one conflict is settled there is a new one that takes its place from moving from the "BAD" in act break one to the "WORSE" in act break two to the "EXTERNAL" in act break 3. The pressure is always on the protagonist to keep moving and accomplish his goal. We also talked about "starting with the snake" which means to start with the action and get with the story or jump into the story, and not to do "once upon a time" type stories no background is needed right away because to be frank that loses the audience’s attention and once you've lost their attention its hard to gain it back. I think that this is why we started our short story with "it just sat there staring" it adds an element of action to begin a story like that. That’s what we learned yesterday, a new thing learned every day.