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Subject: Threes

yas334229812

Has anyone noticed how books and game in the Halo Universe are coming out in trilogies. Does 3 also have a meaning like 7 does or am i just making a big thing out of something stupid.

  • 10.30.2011 7:14 AM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

Trilogies are the best way to sculpt a story on the kind of scale Halo is on.

Act 1 = the introduction to a crisis, the protagonist(s), antagonist(s) and setting(s) and ends with a lead-up to the second act.

Act 2 = the darker part of a story, the development of the characters where they're seemingly at their lowest point and the antagonist(s) are at their highest point. Typically ends with a large cliffhanger to set up the third, and final, act.

Act 3 = the conclusion, all the strands of the story that were set up in Act 1 and 2 are drawn together to deliver a resolution to the grand journey that has been built up.

Halo isn't the only series that's a trilogy, of course. It's just the best way to write a large plot arch, one of the first things I do as a writer is decide whether the story I'm going to write is a single book or a trilogy.

  • 10.30.2011 7:21 AM PDT

yas334229812

damn... i thought there might be something for 3 in the halo universe.

  • 10.30.2011 7:24 AM PDT