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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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