Words to Write by

The Cart Goes After the Horse - Getting Cause and Effect Right in your Story


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This episode is all about cause and effect, what it is, why it is critical in fiction despite being largely absent in real life, and how it works line by line as stimulus and response. In chapter 3 of his book Scene and Structure, Jack Bickham has some hard rules about applying and ordering stimulus, internalization, and response. We examine our own writing to see if it follows the proscribed format.

And, as a bonus, we start the episode off with  interviews we did at the San Francisco Writers Conference that we're calling "Confessions of Craft Book Addicts"

Want to learn more, check out our show notes.

Remember, we have a Writers Process meetup every Wednesday. Check us out.

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