No Failure, Only Practice

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Exercise #24: Édouard Levé's Stochastic Anti-Plots

Exercise #23: Activating Backstory with Dialogue Instead of Flashbacks and Info Dumps

Exercise #22: The Set Piece Prologue as Scale Model

Exercise #21: How to Study Sentence Structure

Exercise #20: Syntactic Symbolism

APPLESEED launch day! / Exercise #19: Retelling Myths, Folklore, and Fairy Tales

Exercise #18: How to Structure Multiple Storylines

Exercise #17: Shapeshifting the Autobiographical

Exercise #16: The Scientific Method as Story Shape

Exercise #15: Suspense-Generating Summaries

Exercise #14: Hunting Weasel Words

Exercise #13: Using Habitual Actions to Generate Specific Scenes

Exercise #12: The Novel-Shaped Story

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