Reporter questions

[Veronica]

I am wondering how my dc should work the "reporter" questions (who, what when where, why, how) into the outline. Should this occur naturally as they are outlining the model, or should this be done in a separate outline?

Thanks,

Veronica

[Lene Mahler Jaqua]

Very briefly (I was at the doctor's all morning and need to get some school done with my kids today).

A story is composed of scenes. Each scene has certain components to it, of which you can ask the WWWWH reporter's questions.

Theon preferred to view them as necessary components of a scene. Each scene has persons, actions, a place, a time, a manner in which the action is done, and a reason or a purpose for the scene.

You outline the story, first into its major scenes... major story divisions, then you outline the parts of each scene. As you write up a scene, you use the reporter's questions to check to see if you included everything esssential in the scene.

There is a lot more to those reporter's questions, but that is the basis of it all.

Lene