Step Five: Explicit Walkthrough

This is the step where we check our work by reading aloud the events as a story. Different participants will take turns walking through portions of the timeline. We do not want to have the events read verbatim from the timeline but to have the participant become a storyteller and narrate a story for the group using the events as their outline. The point of reading the events as a story is that it will force the storyteller to think about how the events connect. When that becomes impossible or difficult, then we might have discovered a plot hole or a missing or misplaced event. The audience participates in the process as well by pointing out the problems in the story.