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AND THE EVENT ORDER FACTOR Now that we've worked a story through Dramatica; now that we have found the perfect structure; now that we have created beautiful illustrations for each appreciation and have a full understanding of the building blocks of our story, a question pops in our minds: How do we turn all of this into a real story? Writers throughout the ages have made statements about this obscure art of turning notes and sketches into fluid narrative—"It's like stringing beads into a necklace," some say, or "It's like weaving dozens of colorful threads in a three-dimensional loom." But aside from these poetic metaphors, we writers have very few notions of how to find the right order for our story events and appreciations. This is one of the things that makes each story unique and irreplaceable, and here the writer is led mostly by his personal taste, his literary culture, and of course, an exhaustive method of trial-and-error. |
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