Why Did Trump Win? Because It Was Written.
How the Iron Rules of Storytelling Predicted Trump's Win
Bad stories are bad in their own ways.
But all good stories are alike.
With apologies to Tolstoy, what I mean is that good stories all have in common the rigid, iron laws of storytelling; this is what in fact makes them great.
I am not talking about prose or character or setting or adjectives. I’m talking about the beats.
You know about the law of the th…
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