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Lydia Vvinters

What's your favourite story structure?

I try to portray the life of a character, and life is inherently more random and batshit crazy than would fit inside classic story structures.

Try to draw your life story on one of Kurt Vonnegut's story shapes: youtu.be/oP3c1h8v2ZQ

Conscious beings can simultaneously be happy and sad; story structures often oversimplify such things.

Here's mine and a template:

@HeliaXyana Yes!! I firmly believe in this; I know learning from the experts can help a ton, but real life isn't as streamline and organized as people make it out to be. Sometimes, real life randomness and deus ex machina happens (happened several times in my family, I kid you not) so I'm just here going like "screw the norm!!"
As long as the readers feel a thing, and learn and experience the things we want them to feel, I think that's alright for me 😄

@WandaLee58

Exactly. Life is nuts.

I often wonder how many people are disappointed with their lives because they don't fit a story structure.

Let's normalize the arbitrary chaos of life in stories. 😎