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Jeff Lyons

Are There Story Rules?

Besides the technical rules pertaining to things like grammar, spelling, and rhetoric, here are 7 essential rules that are crucial for the function of storytelling, regardless of cultural or story structural differences (Western vs. Eastern, or other global storytelling approaches).

Jeff Lyons
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