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My internal editor every time I think I've outlined this bleepin' novel.

Dave Higgins @DaveHiggins

@Annalee Three act structure is a critical tool used to deconstruct novels after publication.

If you have start-problem-reaction-problem-reaction.../...-change then that's a satisfying arc; you don't need to bind yourself to the strictures of Aristotelian form and the prescriptive theories that grew from it to have a "valid" book.

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