Stage 1 · Event

The formative event beneath the present behavior.

Read directly from your manuscript. Manuscript facts, narrative inferences, your own intent, and development suggestions stay clearly separated.

Stage 1 live

Fact

Directly stated

Character claim

Attributed, not established

Inference

Pattern observed

Intention

You decide

Suggestion

One possible path

Reading your manuscript for formative events…

A full screenplay takes a minute or two. Evidence is gathered from your pages only — nothing is invented.

The remaining stages

All nine stages are live. Each one can be rerun on its own from the stage bar above.