This series of articles is intended for the beginning writer. It
is filled with advice, exercises and pointers designed to help
you take the raw clay of your imagination and shape it until not
only do you know what your story elements are, but you have
written a five paragraph, then a one paragraph, then a one
sentence summary of your piece. This article gives a roadmap to
where we're going and why we want to get there. We begin to get
to know our characters, what they want, what they fear, what
they do for a living, what their dreams are and, most
importantly, what their goal is. Here we go deeper into our
characters and start transforming our knowledge into a
narrative. We hone what we know about our characters until it
can be expressed in five paragraphs that summarize our hero's
journey. A continuation of the ideas in (3). A continuation of
the ideas in (4). In this, the final installment of The
Starburst Method, we will distill the essence of our story down
to a one sentence description that communicates