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The ‘forest’, then, is an explosion of opposition:
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
He enters the forest.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
That Thomas had worked for the Chronicle since 1976 was easily established, as was the fact that he’d published three brief novels since that date. Out of a sense of delicacy Carleton never mentioned that he owned all three of these, and found them elegant and elliptical, couched in prose that had the cadence of the King James Bible, and concerned
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all are structured around the build to, and revelation of, the moment that tells us who the protagonists are.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
set-up, confrontation and resolution.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
felt like a racehorse in a world without race-tracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit,
Sylvia Plath • The Bell Jar (FF Classics)
We live what our protagonists live.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Badly placed back-stories inhibit that process, disrupting our ability to empathize.