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Jennifer Egan on storytelling in a data-hooked world

The TED Interview

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Writing First Drafts - Are You Battling Stock Blocks?

In candy house, a character's job is to diagram plot points inarratives. They convert these archetypa into mathematical equations called stock blocks. In terms of the plot, chris salizar is trying to diagram into one gigantic algebraic system. i have a pretty big aversion to those wherever i encounter them. I mean, if i feel them happening in my own work, i feel almost sick, honestly. It feels almost like an alargy.

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