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I Want to talk about how to write a story? And the first command command in the writing fiction is sit your ass in the chair some of us need Velcro Pants Thinking about writing is not writing the story doesn't exist before the act of writing You're in your chair, but your central character will be at the end of [this] rope a desperate man taking desperate measures Only Trouble is interested And everything you don't want to happen to yourself or your family or your friends Should happen to characters you love your hero, but you keep putting obstacles in his way Writing a story is taking the path of most resistance You dip your pen and the ink and you begin at the edge of a cliff you [said] and try to express What's inexpressible and that makes you nervous? You know that every story is a failure But you also know the writer is the one who has not stalked or even fazed by failure And that makes you fearless you begin not knowing where you're going to end up But trusting in your imagination in the writing process to get you there you write about what you don't understand What you don't know is more important than what you know because that's what engages your sense of wonder [you] [sit] and you [insist] on meaning? But not on answers the point is not to answer but to question Not to solve but to seek not to preach but to explore and you also know this that life is stranger than fiction because has to make sense No matter how luminous your prose how? Fascinating your central character if you don't have a plot a narrative shape If your essential character isn't striving to accomplish something meaningful then the reader will put down your story and The plot [-] every story is this You have one central character who wants something? intensely and goes after it despite opposition and as a result of a struggle comes to a win or Lose so you take that definition, [and] you let the plot do your thinking for you It'll lead you quite naturally to Considerations of theme setting point of view and so on so let's say you begin Let's begin with a married couple the belles and with the requisite trouble in mind You open with the death of their child? and you see if the marriage can survive the agonizing Loss the Bells 20 year old daughter [hope] Has died now you don't have to use an allegorical first name, and you may decide that doing so is Heavy-Handed and if you do you'll revise [your] [writing] [a] first draft nothing is carved in stone The bells are home alone after [the] funeral after the burial after the distressing but obligatory reception for Family and Friends Here at the house Alice is sitting on the sofa slumped in the corner teacup in one hand tissues in...