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Truth in Fiction: How to Write and Develop Believable Characters

Story Grid Writing Podcast

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Enlivening Versus Depleting

What we talk about at story grid is the difference between enlivening a language and beats and things a an input and depleting o eso. The descriptors, what we call agent qualifications or agency qualifications, or arena qualifications are complex. There's a little bit of chaos and there's alittle bit of order within it. It's not overly ordered or overly chaotic. When we describe one thing as all one thing and none of the other, it doesn't seem right. Because even in chaos, there is fundamental fractil order. And in order, there's chaos. Complexity is this balance between the two.

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