Article: Four Useful Lies About Writing
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Four Useful Lies About Writing
Most writing ?experts? favor a particular way of looking at plot, and will adhere to it for years or an entire career. That?s all well and good, but its important to realize that any way of modeling story is just that?a model, not the depths and living essence of story itself.
Problems arise when young (or experienced!) writers mistake a simplified structure for some deep and eternal truth. It?s much better to examine several structures, see what their strengths and weaknesses are, and try to glimpse the truth they are trying to convey.
The actual ?truth? of story is beyond any structure, but they all point in the same direction, toward that misty, hidden metaphorical mountain all storytellers have been climbing since the beginning of time. As long as we don?t...
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