The Story SystemBetaBrighter Future

Part 4 · The System AssembledLesson 3.3 · 4 min readFree lesson, opening

The three lengths

Every completed story should exist at three lengths before you consider it deployed, and you build them deliberately rather than improvising under pressure. Call them the line, the telling, and the long form: six seconds, sixty seconds, six minutes. The long form is one story at full length, not to be confused with the six-story pitch in the next lesson, where all six run together in about six minutes.

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