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Hal Duncan

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If you're having to use authorial fiat (effect without cause) & idiot plotting (cause without effect) to crowbar action into following a planned sequence of events, that's not a plot, but the breaking thereof. The non-cop-out move is to go back & rejig initial conditions to tweak the narrative logic

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Distant Juxtaposition's avatar Distant Juxtaposition @djyoung.bsky.social
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This is beautiful advice, really.

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Also to be considered: if thinking through the logical sequence of events from your initial conditions ends up at places you didn't expect, perhaps your understanding of some principle was flawed! Can you tell a good, different story based on a better understanding of these conditions?

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