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Footprints Of Your Characters In The Snow

Footprints Of Your Characters In The Snow

Footprints Of Your Characters In The Snow “Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot precede action. It is the chart that remains when an action is through. That is all Plot ever should be. It is human desire let run, running, and reaching a goal. It cannot be mechanical. It can only be…

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Treeline, Skyline, And Once-Grand Homes

Treeline, Skyline, And Once-Grand Homes

Treeline, Skyline, And Once-Grand Homes As I write this, I am looking out the window of Mom’s 4th floor hospital room. Snow is falling; sometimes nothing more than flurries while at other times hard enough to obscure everything beyond the roof below. A quarter mile away—just beyond the evergreen treeline—the center tower of the 31st Street Bridge dominates the skyline. It rises 280 feet above the road and is threaded with great cables which provide the deck’s support. Between here…

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