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Creatives have to get paid too! This is a great perspective. I’m a film and TV junkie and always always ALWAYS appreciate the storytelling techniques. My takeaway from this is going to try to add these to my personal essays. Good stuff.

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Thanks, C.A. Glad you connect with this piece and hoping it helps your writing 🙏🏾

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Thanks for your thoughtful analysis. It helped me see the strengths of Demon Copperhead, a book I loved but which many of my friends found difficult to finish. There were subplots along the way, and the stakes were increased so much by each of them that the tension got nearly unbearable at times. Subplots such as sports, foster care, poverty, drugs. In terms of 'destination,' it is what the character needs to get away from that drives the book. And this makes the ending a wonderful poetic finish to the story.

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Yes, there are some stories that are so intense I need to take days off reading.

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