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Originally Posted by crich70
I disagree with you about Story. ....
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And Stephen King agrees with you. Story is what matters. I agree.
(some additional tips here:
http://www.openculture.com/2014/03/s...r-writers.html )
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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience."
— Joan Didion (The White Album)
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beyond that IMO it is Narrative Voice that matters.
of course any successful story must have all the elements - Situation, Characters, and the Story around them. It must keep the reader engaged and asking 'what then?'