Trey Parker & Matt Stone's Writing Rule: How to Fix an 'And Then' Plot
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Trey Parker & Matt Stone's Writing Rule: How to Fix an 'And Then' Plot
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone's famous South Park writing rule is deceptively simple: if the beats of your story are connected by "and then," you may have a problem. Instead, they recommend building stories with "but" and "therefore," so one event causes or complicates the next.
It's great writing advice. But how do you actually use it to fix a story? What's the formal tool?
In this episode, I trace the idea from Parker and Stone's viral 2011 NYU writing lecture, to The Devil Wears Prada screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna, all the way back to Aristotle's Poetics from 2000+ years ago. A chain to find a chain.
Then we turn the principle into a practical fiction-writing tool: the Causal Chain Audit.
If your novel, short story, or screenplay feels like a stack or 'gathering' of good scenes that somehow still isn't pulling you forward, this is a diagnostics tool you can use directly on your draft (and maybe even on your outline).