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Sawyer Scott's avatar

This is good and interesting stuff. I didn't want to read it all right now cuz I have to go to work but I sure did read it all right now. Thank you for the insights.

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Tara Sitser's avatar

Much appreciation for this article and for all that you offer! Thank you for creating space that welcomes and supports authors. 🙏

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Cynthia Hartwig's avatar

I found the form of my novel from within it. Made my day when you said that’s the gift of writing :-)

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Chris Bujold's avatar

You all are smart and stuff.

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April | The Narrative Nest's avatar

I'm loving what you guys are creating here! Can't wait to read more and share your work!

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Susmitha's avatar

This is incredible! Thank you so much for generously sharing your knowledge and making the effort to describe each thing to us so artfully with examples. 🙏🏽🥰

I took notes!

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Ada Austen's avatar

This is so wonderful. I felt so alone and blind as I allowed my just finished novel to show me its form, instead of forcing it into a popular structure that could not contain it. Lovely to see that option taught here.

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Sasha Stadler's avatar

Coming from a screenwriting/filmmaking tradition, we don't always use such a rich terminology for these techniques, but it seems we're all going to the same place. It's like narrative convergent evolution: at some point, everything becomes a crab. Thanks for sharing!

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Chance Colbert's avatar

Too timely. Neckdeep in Florence Goyet's The Classic Short Story, a book-length dissertation on short story structure in peak era of the form (1875 - 1920). Free online for those interested!

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Keith Hampton's avatar

Immediately helpful to me and relevant to the writing I'm doing now. TREE OF LIFE YO!

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