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The Written Unknown IV: The Secret Scaffolding of Story | Narrative Architecture, Story Structure, Character, Plot, Writing, and Why Stories Matter
What actually makes something a story?
Is story the same thing as plot?
Why can an explosion leave us emotionally untouched while one quiet sentence at a dinner table changes everything?
And beneath novels, films, myths, family histories, political narratives, and the stories we tell about ourselves, is there a smaller structure that explains why certain events matter?
In The Written Unknown IV, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey introduces The Secret Scaffolding of Story: Narrative Architecture and the Strange Machinery Behind Every Tale, his relational theory of narrative and a practical framework for…
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