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PLOTTING_FATE


                                                           October 22, 2022
                               
   Plots involving "fate" often
   seem to use it as a cosmic       
   justification for genre          
   tropes: given rules on how                Plots that are built around
   things need to progress, the              the author's sense of what's
   writer saves themselves work              inevitable.  Scenario planning
   on finding paths through the              is unnecessary if you know
   material.  Whatever the                   the one way things have to go.
   author chooses will seem               
   inevitable and necessary if            
   one assumes as a story                 
   premise that these things     DEJA_ARISTOTLE
   are in fact inevitable.                
                                          
                                          
     There is a tension                   
     in romantic fiction                  
     between fated                        
     outcomes and                    Manipulating people's sense of what's
     individual agency.              inevitable: if you can convince that
     You want to give the            things must be so, you skip the need for
     heroes credit for               persuading that they should be made so.
     achieving victory,                   
     but if it had to be                  
     so, they were just                   
     along for the ride.                  
                                                                    
                                                                    
                                         The ulitimate dismissal of 
                                         the concept of place-- 
                                         a graveyard plot to bury it in.
                                          
                                          
                                          
      Capitalism                                 Cartoon tombstones:
      and Love?                           
                                                   Fate
        Money and Love:                            Irony
        fluid commodities                          Love
        that flow into the                         Mind
        cracks.                           
                                                       Enlightenment
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
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