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Ginevra Blake's avatar

“I like exploring the small, telling pivots of a moment because I believe that such small moments can be as important as the larger dramatic moments we often think define life.” Grant, this sentence of yours is gold to me. I’m also grateful I am a paid subscriber to your posts because I don’t want to miss the many shiny bits I find in your newsletters and work.

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Linda Joy Myers's avatar

If only "plot" wasn't taught as so mechanical in discussing the progress of a protagonist or a story. What if it's about human change and development that is, or appears to be, organic based on the conflicts and challenges of a human person. And in short fiction, I can see the non-plot moment working; the problem is in longer fiction, how do we find a different more subtle solution to " what kind of change occurs." Maybe you are saying the progress of a story doesn't need to be about change?

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