Notes tagged “MICE quotient”

2024

• Mar 5
  Beginning, middle, and end part 3: Story types The three key types of change in stories are revelation, character decision, and external action. These map to idea, character, and event stories in Orson Scott Card’s MICE quotient.

  4 min

2023

• Jan 20
  Storytelling with large-scale, complex bracketing structures Story structures like the Hero’s Journey and seven-point plot structure can use bracketing to enhance their emotional and thematic resonance.

  7 min

2022

• Nov 13
  How Orson Scott Card’s MICE quotient maps to internal and external genres of narrative drive Story theorists commonly apply the MICE quotient to story structure, but elements from the framework apply to the core conflicts behind action-, revelation-, and character-based plots.

  5 min