Pixar story artist Emma Coats has tweeted a series of “story basics” over the past month and a half — guidelines that she learned from her more senior colleagues on how to create appealing stories.

Recently director and screen writer Andrew Stanton presented at the TED conference on the elements of story.

O.K. Oldies, it’s time to recall something we all enjoyed as kids and something we can enjoy again as bigger kids. I’m talking about the Prince Charming Regal Carousel which I think should still be called Cinderella’s Golden Carousel but they didn’t ask my opinion or give me a vote.

One day while in the amusement park sitting on a bench as usual, the dad had a dream. He dreamed someday he would to build an amusement park where both children and adults could spend time with one another and even go on rides together. This was to be a place for families to go where they could share each and every experience. So the dad set out to make his dream a reality.

In the world's most beautiful city resides a great Disney Imagineering experiment: the theme park as a work of art. (The park is so beautiful, I left all the images very large, just click on them.)