It is Super Natural: Four Basic Elements To Your Story

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When I talk about novel structure, I talk a lot about Dwight Swain who wrote Techniques of the Selling Writer. Swain has some really cool elemental aspects that he talks about and no, they don’t have to do with inciting incidents or the climax—at least not initially, and I thought it would be fun if […]

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