Pitch Dictionary by pitch.dog
Set pieces, subplots & story threads · Core

Story

Also called: narrative

ELI5

What happens, to whom, and why it matters.

Used in conversation

“The pitch names the story, but the story still needs to prove it.”

Definition

The total dramatic experience, including events, characters, relationships, meaning and form.

Here “Story” means: The total dramatic experience, including events, characters, relationships, meaning and form.

Pitch context

Use this when explaining how the story works on the page or across the finished screen experience.

Why it matters: Helps describe how a story works on the page and how its dramatic parts fit together.

Connected terms

  • PlotStory is the meaningful whole of what happens; plot is the selected and ordered chain of events presenting it.
Sources & evidence · 6

Direct term-level sources and supporting source families.