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The three things that cause stories to stall out

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Naomi K
Apr 20, 2018
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Am stalled today on writing, because there's just this one thing I don't know. I have these two characters interacting, and I don't know how it turns out. The thing is, you can always just write down some crap. One pulls out a gun and shoots the other one. They break up. They're mean to each other. There are ten thousand solutions.

But the real question …

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