Ok, so I'm lazy and this is my first article, so bear with me here (lol). I was in the car, just kind of sitting there, when I had memories of 8th grade and for some reason, I remembered when we were studying Elements of a Story. Now, our teacher always pushed us on the climax, or turning point, of the story. She would always tell us: "Ok, so you have two scenes of a story: the guy gets into a fight and the guy gets shot. Which one is the climax?" Now, she would always get different answers. Half the class said fight, the other half said shot. The answer was shot. Why? Because at that point,...
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