Peachy Keenan's Extremely Domestic

Peachy Keenan's Extremely Domestic

Why Did Trump Win? Because It Was Written.

How the Iron Rules of Storytelling Predicted Trump's Win

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Peachy Keenan
Nov 17, 2024
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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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