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Plotting a Solution

by Lindsey Charlton on June 1, 2008

Are you an impatient writer that wants to “write a story, right now”?  Need a plot in a hurry for this or that deadline? Writer’s block?
Consider looking over Georges Polti’s “Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations” or, as referenced in this article on Flemming Funch’s blog, “The 36 Plots” by Loren Miller.
Of course we know that plots are […]

Sometimes the truth is
Not what you want it to be.
Is it ever what you expected?
No, probably not.
Are you okay with that?
Are we meant to create truth or
Are we meant to find it?

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