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From Event to Emotion--How Do You Bridge the Gap in Your Writing?

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Mary Carroll Moore
Jan 14, 2012
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E.M Forester said that human beings lead two lives, "the life in time and the life by values."  In Aspects of the Novel, he writes:



"A story is a narrative of events arranged in their time sequence — it simply tells us what happened and in what order. It is the time sequence which turns a random collection of episodes into a story. But chronological sequ…

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