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I've always thought "story structure" is something discovered by readers (usually academics) who look for it.
Audrey wrote: "I've always thought "story structure" is something discovered by readers (usually academics) who look for it."
Oh, I don't know. My wife always talks about reading the "falling action", or what she thinks is the falling action after the climax, but with Kindles, and no page numbers, she's never quite sure, some of them go on and on. I usually don't pay much attention, but occasionally I get the sense of when act one switches to act two... And I know that the climax of Outlander came in the middle of the book, when she decides to stay. What the writer was thinking about putting it in the middle of the book, I don't know. I never worry about things like that in my own writing, save for putting the climax at the end, sometimes, I guess, too close to the end.
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I've always thought "story structure" is something discovered by readers (usually academics) who look for it.
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Audrey wrote: "I've always thought "story structure" is something discovered by readers (usually academics) who look for it."Oh, I don't know. My wife always talks about reading the "falling action", or what she thinks is the falling action after the climax, but with Kindles, and no page numbers, she's never quite sure, some of them go on and on. I usually don't pay much attention, but occasionally I get the sense of when act one switches to act two... And I know that the climax of Outlander came in the middle of the book, when she decides to stay. What the writer was thinking about putting it in the middle of the book, I don't know. I never worry about things like that in my own writing, save for putting the climax at the end, sometimes, I guess, too close to the end.
