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Every picture tells a story, but not every story creates a pictures within the mind in real time. The reverberations of Hamlet, Gone With the Wind or TO Kill A Mocking Bird resonate throughout a person's lifetime. I walk out of Pixar products happy and satisfied with the entertainment values. But these are a minor titillation that lasts for minutes, maybe a few hours; of nothing earth-shaking compared to say the novel aspects of Blade Runner or the profundity of books by the masters (Cervantes, Dante, Goethe, Shakespeare, other etc).

However, the rules of writing are like me teaching a guitar student ten, twenty rules to capture an audience from the start, but knowing all the time that controlling elements of performance fly right out the window when the first note is struck. The gut (or internal mind) takes over and the song works or it doesn't.

TO me, a novel works if it flows from the start and I can't stop writing it. Something in me takes over the process (and I leave the rest to AutoCrit, lol).

Fiction writing is a fine art, it flows from within and flows best after all rules and regulations are internalized and then muted/smursched from conscious thinking. But of course, basic rules must function in the background, perhaps at the sub-conscious level are rules that are best learned from reactions/reviews to work put out to be read, i.e. reviews from this site, publisher's comments and most important are the bruises and burns on the nose after they've been put to the grindstone. Ha-ha, one sharpens their writing nose through hard-learned grinding (breaking rules and playing with rules) to then sniff out the way towards the final word and THE END.

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