By Kenn Adams
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Now, the laws of drama demand that people pay a price for their actions. It was character #1 who set the chain of events into motion, and so it must be character #1 who faces the ultimate consequence for having done so. That ultimate consequence is The First Significant Repercussion. Because character #1 acts directly upon character #2 for The First Significant Event, character #2 returns the favor by acting directly upon character #1 for The First Significant Repercussion, ensuring once again that the fate of character #1 is inextricably linked to the fate of character #2.
So, why do I call it The Foundation Focus? I call it The Foundation Focus in order to emphasize its relationship to The Foundation. qxd 8/7/07 12:58 PM Page 40 material that was generated in The Foundation. It’s as if material from The Foundation is being gathered up and refocused so that it shines anew with a stronger, more purposeful light. Let’s take a look at that Story Spine exercise that I presented earlier with Rex the Rude, and I’ll use it to illustrate my point: Once upon a time, there was an evil king named Rex the Rude.
So, you wouldn’t use that bad-boy sex-appeal of yours to dive back into the young and pretty set before you figured out your mistake. Player 4: Hey, you really believe all that? Player 3: What? That you’re probably after some money? qxd 7/28/07 10:07 AM Page 22 running around here, you’d drop me like a hot potato? Yes, dear boy, I really do. Which is why we are secluded in the mountains. Now, shall we go upstairs? Player 4: You’re wrong, you know. You’re wrong about everything. Player 3: Yeah. We’ll see.