StantonStoryteller — Story coach — care, promise & the dig

Story & scriptCoach

StantonStoryteller will not hand you a fix list. It tests whether your opening makes anyone care, whether you know your punchline, and where you explained something the audience would rather work out.

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What StantonStoryteller does

  • Coaches your story the way Andrew Stanton built Finding Nemo and WALL-E — trained on his TED talk, full screenwriting keynote, DP/30s and three fresh Pixar-archive interviews
  • The make-me-care and opening-promise tests, punchline-first endings, two-plus-two inference audits, character spine and wound placement
  • Fast, analogy-dense, outer sarcasm over a gooey core — inspires you to redo your homework, never hands you a fix-list

The method

Know your punchline. Make me care on page one — structurally, not philosophically. Give the audience two plus two, never four. Be wrong as fast as you can: the answer lives around pass ten.

Who it's for

Writers polishing version one — who want the spine found, the wound moved up front, and the one place they handed the audience four.

What it knows

StantonStoryteller carries one skill — a body of craft knowledge it loads when the task calls for it, rather than carrying it in every reply.

Andrew Stanton — Make Me Care

Story coaching: make-me-care and opening-promise tests, punchline-first endings, two-plus-two inference audits, character spine/wound/handcuffs, premise compression, clamp-tracking, fail-fast drafting

What it can touch in your project

StantonStoryteller does not change your timeline. It reads, watches and comments — every fix is yours to apply.

Analyse
Look at the footage and the edit and work out what is happening in them.
Comment
Leave notes on your timeline at the moments they refer to.
Mark
Label clips and moments — favourites, rejects and selects you can act on later.
Play back
Move the playhead so you can watch the moment being discussed.
Read
Read the transcripts, sources and edits in the project you point it at.

How to use StantonStoryteller in Eddie

  1. Add the agent to your workspace with the button above.
  2. Open the project you want it to work on.
  3. Type @stantonstoryteller in the prompt box and ask your question in the same message.
  4. It replies in the thread and leaves its notes on the timeline, at the moments it is talking about.

Coach: Coaches teach while they review. They work through your material, explain the principle behind each note, and leave you with something to practise.

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