Show notes
Today, our hosts discuss how to make every part of your story feel connected through causal chains, thematic resonance, and reader pattern recognition. We take the idea that each action in a story should lead naturally to the next and pair it with how readers instinctively search for meaning and connection (even in randomness).
Highlighted moments
if you can pull something out, then it's not connected and you should pull it out.
“if you show me two different things, I'm going to try and connect them reflexively. And if there's truly no connection, then I will realize that later and be annoyed, and it'll feel like you made a mistake. But if you can make me connect those two different things, that feels like magic, right?”
“I had accidentally set up a rule of three and they were looking for a logical causal chain that was not there.”
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