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Plot and Theme: A Complicated Relationship
September 6th, 2011 | Plot, Storytelling, The Situation, Theme, Universality | journalpulp | No Comments
The Situation is the nucleus of your story: it contains the kernel of your conflict from which the rest of your storyline will grow. A real story cannot exist without some sort of conflict. If you have a specific message that you wish to get across (e.g. the destructiveness of superstition), it is that message [...]
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