There's no traditional three act structure - or beginning, middle and end - to a family tree. By its nature, it has almost infinite different branches, or episodes, to explore in every direction.
I wanted some family structure and stability, and that's what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.
I know a lot of people in the business recommend the many Story Structure seminars being offered here, but I point to them as the single biggest contributor to lousy scripts.
Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ.
The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.
They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.
I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure.
It's possible to get through life without a religious structure, but I don't think that's a very fruitful way to live.
Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.
To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.
What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.
The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states.
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.
Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.
I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.
A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.
Cable series have more time to focus on characters, and a structure that allows for a development in character as you go along. Network shows have a pressure of time and space that is completely different.
