What is BME Narrative?
The upstart profession of story consulting began to specialize in something I call BME (beginning, middle, & end) narrative coherence. BME stands for beginning, middle, and end. Not a new invention, well known since Aristotle (350 BCE) in his renditions of the Poetics of BME, how each proper story must have narrative sequence of beginning, middle, and end, and thereby be a whole narrative with a plot sequence of events, characters, themes, dialogue, rhythm, and spectacle. The field of narrative studies emerged from Aristotle’s (350 BCE: section 1450b: lines 1-20: pp. 232-233) conception that narratives must be coherently plotted, with beginning, middle, and end (hereafter, BME). “We have laid it down that a tragedy is an imitation of an action that is complete in itself, as a whole of some magnitude… Now a whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end” (1450b: 25-30: p. 233). As Aristotle’s mimetic of BME of linear, whole, representation becomes adopted by Russian Formalism, and
