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False Agreements and How They Drive Characters in Your Fiction or Memoir

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Mary Carroll Moore
Feb 10, 2017
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What I call the "inner story" in fiction or memoir just refers to the transformation of a character or narrator through a series of outer events.  It's pretty simple, but its success depends on something called "false agreements."  Without this transformation, and the false agreements that propel it, a story is just a list of crises.   Readers want to w…

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