Writing Tip: Three-Act Structure as Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis

Scott Myers
Go Into The Story
Published in
4 min readApr 5, 2024

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How we can apply this theory of dialectics to the story-crafting process.

Friedrich Hegel: Inadvertent screenwriting theorist

I saw a tweet recently where someone mentioned that Hegel’s use of dialectics could be applied to story. Here is a definition I found online:

An interpretive method, originally used to relate specific entities or events to the absolute idea, in which some…

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