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JuanCafe:

--- Quote ---What is a story?  According to Gerrold, a story is a person with a problem. (I think that definition is incomplete, but it will do for now.)
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Eric, so what is it you think is missing?

And was this the TV screenwriting workshop Gerrold conducted?

Eric James Stone:

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Eric, so what is it you think is missing?

And was this the TV screenwriting workshop Gerrold conducted?
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It was just a half-day writing workshop at a Star Trek convention in Las Vegas a couple of years ago.

What do I think is missing from the definition?  Action and resolution.

I think Gerrold was trying to boil a story down to the barest essentials, but I think he boiled too much off.  I'd say the minimalist definition of a story would be: A person acts, resolving a problem.

That definition still has problems, of course, because sometimes the person doesn't resolve the problem, the problem resolves them.  But either way, there's a resolution.

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