Build Your Story's Setups & Payoffs

Build Your Story's Setups & Payoffs

Great setups and payoffs separate great stories from good stories. We feel they are one of, if not the, most important elements of brilliant storytelling. So much so, we wanted to make sure you could strategically build and organize your story's setups and payoffs. That's why you'll find two ways to add a setup or payoff into your story.

  1. Within a specific Story Event:

  2. By using the Setups & Payoffs. module:

A great feature you'll find while in the Setups & Payoffs module is a simple way to view what Setups are attached to what Payoffs. This feature also allows you to see what Setups still need to be paid off, or vice versa.

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