on Helping Writers become Authors:

I often talk about cohesion and resonanceas being two of the most important qualities of great stories.

Many factors are involved in achieving these effects, but one of the subtlest and yet most powerful is found within the structure of story itself.

This is the hidden “circle” of story structure, in which all the important beats in the first half can be seen as foreshadowing for their “partner” beats in the second half.

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