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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
work, but his characteristic wish is to work as well as possible.
Wendell Berry • The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
Our absolute necessity to impose order is where narrative structure begins.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
inciting incident blows a seemingly ordered reality into a thousand fragments, then a detective arrives to hunt down the culprits and restore things to their rightful place.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
But I do say, to start with, “What can we do for posterity, except deal fairly with our contemporaries?” Unless a man love his wife whom he has seen, how shall he love his child whom he has not seen?
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Both characters are pursuing equal and opposite desires.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
An Odonian undertook monogamy just as he might undertake a joint enterprise in production, a ballet or a soap works. Partnership was a voluntarily constituted federation like any other. So long as it worked, it worked, and if it didn’t work it stopped being. It was not an institution but a function. It had no sanction but that of private
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indefatigable