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Tom Harvey's avatar

I'm struck by the idea that if we honour the journey, the imagination, the twists and turns, let our story find its path, then we can't know the crisis ourselves. It must come as a surprise to us. As though the line of men with their buckets of water, that increase in size and weight, and begin to boil towards the end of the line, and the final bucket arrives at the final man and at the end we find, not a fire, but a cow with a newly born calf. Got a bit carried away there, that's not really a crisis moment, more of a twist at the end. But are we saying that our obsessing about plot, structure and a journey toward a crisis, is flawed, because we can't create the crisis ourselves it has to arise from the fabric of the story. And if we are good writers we will get good at finding those moments, at spotting them, and warming them up. So its more about listening to the story than it is about telling it...sort of...?

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David Snider's avatar

This post somehow addresses nearly everything I’ve been thinking about lately, so, thank you!

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