I like Johnstone's idea: "Describe a routine, then interrupt it."
Story is stringing interrupted routines together.
Implicitly, routines stretch infinitely before the beginning and after the end.
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A thing I’ve learned this year is that story and writing are orthogonal skills. Still haven’t figured out what the core activity of story is. I don’t mean structure/plot/character. I mean something like: If writing is stringing words together, story is stringing ______ together?
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