How to Run a Story Breaking Session

🫧 Open on Bubbles "Story breaking" is a term I used at Failbetter 1 for the process of taking a story from basically nothing to a rough outline. When I was Fallen London 's lead designer, I led several story breaking sessions over the years—those would be long meetings involving 3-4 writers, with the goal of breaking a story for a major storyline or a seasonal event. Story breaking is essentially a process of rapid ideation and outlining. It has several benefits over just sending one writer off to outline a