The sexy part of story structure: Scene and Sequel

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So last week on the podcast and on our blog where we elaborated a bit, we talked about the four main elements of story structure according to Dwight Swain, who wrote The Techniques of the Selling Writer. Those were: Making cool characters. Grouping your sentences and paragraphs into motivation reaction units. Grouping those motivation reaction […]

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