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16.39: Deep Dive into “Event”

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The Obstacle Versus the Complication

I think that because event is action driven, everything feels like it's an event. You know, stories are inherently about change. That that's a thing that happens in stories. So when you're looking at am, let's say that you're doing a mile story, or your characters crash land on a planet am. If they arrive on the planet, that is definitely a mile story and the thing that they're trying to solve is getting off the planet. And fixing the event of the problem with the ship is incidental to the primary thrust,. which is getting off and surviving the planet. The question that is often the deciding factor isn't necessarily imean. A lot of it is

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