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I had lunch with my dad today, and we talked about something that’s been happening in the family. (Garden-variety family stuff, so don’t worry.) When he asked me my side of things, I explained that, since addressing it directly had been badly received, and deflecting hadn’t worked, I’d been avoiding the situation.
Yep, I avoid conflict.
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Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer’s labor goes into designing story. Who are these characters? What do they want? Why do they want it? How do they go about getting it? What stops them? What are the consequences? Finding the answers to these grand [...]