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Patterns in Plotting In this series about patterns in plotting we’ve established that, contrary to other areas such as science and the humanities, novelists must create patterns. (As opposed to other areas that tend to discover patterns.) This need to … Continue reading →

Nothing is Random In my previous blog post, Creating Patterns as a Novelist Part I, we took an inside look at how the novelist looks at, recognizes, and uses patterns in the course of plotting. In that post I said: … Continue reading →