Barbie, directed by Greta Gerwig
© 2023 Warner Bros. Pictures. All rights reserved.
Empathy Deck
The Hidden Keys to Unlock Emotions
Speak directly to your audience’s heart. StoryTricks® generates powerful empathy every single time with tools ranging from actionnable formulas to caring situations’ description.
Professional Writing Tool
Trusted by Major & Independent Studios
The Right Dosage
Of Pure Empathy
How do you communicate the emotional journey of your characters? While likability and sympathy may help sugar coat them, empathy is the absolute must for any successful story. The Empathy deck speaks directly to your audience’s heart, regardless of your protagonists’ or antagonists’ moral compass.
Feel What They
Feel
Feelings keep us physiologically engaged in storytelling, and there are hidden techniques to stimulate them.
Magnetize Your
Characters
Instant connection between your audience and your characters, keeps them emotionally invested until the end.
Immediate Results Guaranteed
Seamlessly infuse genuine emotions into your story without making the plot feel forced, contrived, or cheesy.
What’s Included Inside
The Empathy Deck?
The Empathy Deck contains 51 tutorials cards to help you use the empathy formula, empathy tips, empathy components, caring situations, emotional pry bars and engaging blueprints
1. EMPATHY FORMULA
The Foolproof Steps to
Empathetic Characters
Neuroscientists have identified an objective formula that triggers empathy for characters in our brains without any conscious deliberation. When applied carefully, it simply works!
Tutorial Cards (2): Empahty Formula, Support or Follow
2. EMPATHY TIPS
A Durable Bond
At First Sight
Empathy Tips are actionable advices that add up nicely to build an everlasting bond between your audience and characters.
Tutorial Cards (6) : Add Weaknesses, Switch Point of View, Suffer With Dignity, Fight For Others, Interact With Worse, Sense Of Humor
3. EMPATHY COMPONENTS
A Playful Sandbox For
Experimentation
Use at least 2 out of 10 components designed to make the audience feel what your characters feel. The Empathy formula is incomplete without them, but how you combine them is entirely up to you!
Tutorial Cards (10) : Display A Valued Trait, Very Good At Something, Unfair Treatment, Wishing Well, Thrust Into Danger, Thrust Into Grief, Care For Others, Attention-Getting, Fight for Change, Inner Struggle
4. CARING SITUATIONS
Dramatic Situations
We Care About
These dramatic set-ups strengthen empathy and concern, stimulating feelings and engagement for the characters involved in their resolutions.
Tutorial Cards (31) : Caring Situations, Humiliation, Catastrophe, Family Feud, Cruelty, Vengeance, Chase, Betrayal, Altered State, Banishment, Perilous Enterprise, Ambitious Enterprise, Deliverance, Enigma, Abduction, Urgency, Mistaken Jealousy, Crime of Passion, Loss, Reunion, Misfortune, Rebellion, Fate, Rivalry, Remorse, Temptation, Sacrifice, Dishonor, Forbidden Love, Wrong Decision, Power Conflict
4. EMOTIONAL PRY BARS & BLUEPRINTS
Cheat Codes Because
They’re Allowed
Identification, transportation, and universal blueprints force us to delve into problems we all share as human beings. You can’t resist these principles, no matter how tough you are.
Tutorial Cards (2) : Emotional Pry Bar, Engaging Blueprints
Peek Inside
The Empathy Deck
Click on a card to preview its flip side.
HOW TO USE?
All You Need Are
Cards & Sticky Notes
Stick your handwritten notes directly on the cards. You can map your entire story and characters using standard-sized sticky notes that are easy to refine, scratch, and replace. Not enough physical space to display them all at once? You don’t have to. Simply store your annotated decks in their boxes and browse through them wherever you want.
John Wick: Chapter 2, directed by Chad Stahelski
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, developed by Nintendo EPD
© 2017 Nintendo. All rights reserved.
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, directed by James Gunn
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The Queen Gambit, created by Scott Frank & Allan Scott
© 2020 Netflix. All rights reserved.
Ted Lasso, created by Bill Lawrence, Jason Sudeikis, Joe Kelly & Brendan Hunt
© 2008 Apple TV+. All rights reserved.
Better Call Saul, created by Vince Gilligan & Peter Gould
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WALL-E, directed by Andrew Stanton
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Everything Everywhere All at Once, directed by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
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Alien 3, directed by David Fincher
© 1992 20th Century Fox. All rights reserved.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie, directed by Aaron Horvath & Michael Jelenic
© 2023 Universal Pictures. All rights reserved.
The Martian, directed by Ridley Scott
© 2015 20th Century Fox. All rights reserved.
Barbie
Directed by Greta Gerwig © 2023 Warner Bros. Pictures. All rights reserved.
John Wick: Chapter 2
Directed by Chad Stahelski, © 2017 Summit Entertainment. All rights reserved.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Developed by Nintendo EPD © 2017 Nintendo. All rights reserved.
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
Directed by James Gunn © 2022 Marvel Studios. All rights reserved.
The Queen Gambit
Created by Scott Frank & Allan Scott © 2020 Netflix. All rights reserved.
Ted Lasso
Created by Bill Lawrence, Jason Sudeikis, Joe Kelly & Brendan Hunt © 2008 Apple TV+. All rights reserved.
Better Call Saul
Created by Vince Gilligan & Peter Gould © 2015-2022 AMC Networks. All rights reserved.
WALL-E
Directed by Andrew Stanton © 2008 Pixar Animation Studios. All rights reserved.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Directed by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert © 2022 A24. All rights reserved.
Alien 3
Directed by David Fincher © 1992 20th Century Fox. All rights reserved.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Directed by Aaron Horvath & Michael Jelenic © 2023 Universal Pictures. All rights reserved.
The Martian
Directed by Ridley Scott © 2015 20th Century Fox. All rights reserved.
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You should find a lot of answers below, but we are all ears if needed. Just drop us a line at hello@storytricks.cards
Can I use a deck alone?
Yes. While StoryTricks has been crafted to guide you through your entire creative process, the decks can also be used alone to focus on specific parts of your story. In a few cases, a card may refer to another deck, but it won’t hinder your progress.
How many cards per deck?
Each deck contains between 51 and 52 cards. The first card serves as an introduction and outlines the main sections of the deck.
What are the dimensions of the cards?
The dimensions of the cards are 126 mm x 89 mm, or 5 in x 3.5 in. Closer to tarot cards than playing cards, they allow you to put sticky notes on them.
What do the numbers on each card mean?
The cards are numbered to be followed in order and to reference specific ones when needed. There are no more than 52 cards per deck. We add hundreds to differentiate the cards between each deck. Framing cards are numbered 1xx and 2xx, Genres cards are 3xx, Characters cards are 4xx, Structure cards are 5xx and 6xx, and Empathy cards are 7xx.
Is there a digital version of the decks?
Each StoryTricks deck is also available in PDF or as a Miro template
What are the Miro templates?
The Miro templates are online whiteboards available on Miro. Each template contains the front and back of every card from a deck. The cards are arranged by sections with additional guidance and a video tutorial (TalkTrack). Right after your purchase, you’ll receive a link to the template by email. The boards are in read-only mode. Just duplicate the board to your Miro account to start working.
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