The Importance of Form and Essence

In one of our very first episodes of writing excuses, we talked about the principle of explaining something small in great detail and then not even bothering to explain something huge. If two people are having an argument about what constitutes pizza, okay, I realize that might not be macro tension. But if they're having this argument and the argument is well articulated and everybody responds in a way that makes sense for their characters and makes sense to the reader, it feels resonant. Part of it is that the emotional need that is kind of driving your conflict will show up just as much in your pizza argument or you're making them spaghetti as they will about the bigger things. And now we're going to take