Also humans. We demonstrate that intelligences are often (usually) misled by the proxy inidcators.
On storytelling (developing a movie script in particular).
John Truby, The Anatomy of Story. 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
I haven't actually read other books on movie scripts, but I have read a number of comparision reviews that overwhelmingly recommend this one. I have also read Joe Vitale's books, Springboard by Demming, a number of books on Seth Godin and Made to Stick and other books by Heath brothers. Truby's book excels as a textbook. He also taught tens of thousands of people.
It's tricky because it's not about a single tree of categories. There are multiple types of relationships (A causes B, A build B, A manages B, A does something to B, A describes B, etc.) which form multiples hierarchies (a holarchy). This means that the space of concepts (objects/categories) is multidimensional, sort of around 10-dimensional (exact number is irrelevant, just to illustrate). As a result, people cannot perceive/imagine the holarchy (and there actually are overlapping and conflicting alternative holarchies) the way they can a category tree. T... (read more)