The story · The tension · Element

The stake

What was at risk.

The part

What it is

Tension requires something to lose. Without a stake, a difficulty is an anecdote.

The stake does not have to be existential; it has to be real to the people in the story.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.