I love that this comes back to the idea of escalation. Does a framing device provide escalation to a story, does it meaningfully expand the story? If so, great. If not, eject it. It's a simple idea (although not necessarily easy to execute) but one that's already been helpful to my own writing.
I love that this comes back to the idea of escalation. Does a framing device provide escalation to a story, does it meaningfully expand the story? If so, great. If not, eject it. It's a simple idea (although not necessarily easy to execute) but one that's already been helpful to my own writing.
I love that this comes back to the idea of escalation. Does a framing device provide escalation to a story, does it meaningfully expand the story? If so, great. If not, eject it. It's a simple idea (although not necessarily easy to execute) but one that's already been helpful to my own writing.
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Yes. Otherwise, why's it there?
Yes!