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Writing Excuses

21.22: The Order of the Telling

May 31, 202627 min · 5,736 words

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*Time-Sensitive* Our final WXR cruise is almost sold out, grab your spot before June 4th, 2026 here! This week, we are talking about the order in which we present information to the reader as contrasted with the order in which events actually progressed in the universe of this story and why those things might be completely different.

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one reason is the order in which things happen is often very boring.
you can tell anyone anything so long as it's relevant to what's happening in the moment.
It changes it from the question of what if to, okay, what do we do in the face of inevitability?
what is the thing that is connecting one thing to the next if it's not time? And sometimes it's character development. Sometimes it's emotion. Sometimes it's theme.

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