In a classical script you move from logline to beats, beats to scenes, scenes to acts. In our federated, many-voices version, we keep that ladder but give ourselves two tiny, portable building blocks: icons and Scene Sketches.
Icons are the verbs and props—the small, functional abstractions that say “do this” or “this is that.” Scene sketches are the little frames that carry mood and place—the single-stroke storyboard panels that hint at light, pace, and attitude. Both live as their own pages, both travel well, both can be adopted, adapted, and remixed.
# How does it work? Here’s how I imagine it: each beat gets its own wiki page and its own icon — a tiny sketch that captures the feel of the scene.
> The page is the *script note*; the icon is the *gesture*.
You name the beat, say what it does in your story, and show the SVG right there on the page. Because it’s federated, your definition and your icon travel together; anyone can Fork your page, weave your beat into their storyline, tweak the feel, and keep credit intact.
Beats become cards; cards become sequences; sequences become episodes. And because the icon is a minimal, single-path SVG, it scales from a 20 px toolbar to a cinema screen without losing its vibe.
If you want a simple pattern to follow, think of a beat page as three layers: - a one-sentence **logline** (“what this move does”), - the **icon** (the sketch of its mood and motion), and - a short **use** paragraph (“where it belongs in a scene, how it plays with other beats”).
Links to variants and remixes keep the network alive: your beat can guest-star in someone else’s story, or return home with new lines.
# See - Icon Page and Beat Page Template - Portable Meaning - Story Maps and Story Glyphs