Writing is a hard medium to grasp.
Good writing is self-evident, but thereasonsits good may not be.
It connects the beginning, the middle, and the end.
Structure gives everything a theme, regardless of the style its presented in.
If you dont, how can you know what your theme is?
How can you foreshadow anything?
When you know what your ending is, then you know what youre writing.
You dont have to know every detail of it.
With Seven I always knew that there were going to be seven deadly sin murders.
Therein lay the structure of it.
Good cop was gonna become wrath in the end.
With that I had a skeleton on which to build the spine of the story.
Structure is a harder element to identify because, if you do it right, its invisible.
Everyone can see that the basic element of writing is a sentence.
Not everyone can perceive a three-act structure, or notices the subtle themes that guide your writing.
However, the details of your structure are what give your writing a sense of purpose.
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