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Foxtail Studio is a blog by Christina Weese, graphic designer, who is currently blogging about designing her first illustrated fairy tale. I also post on other things more or less related to storytelling - literary/writer things, photogrpahy, book design, general sociology ramblings - and also sometimes food.
1. What Writers Can Learn From Harry Potter
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By: Christy, on 6/1/2011
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“Novels are really philosophy books in narrative disguise… Aristotle defined dramatic action as ‘the change from good fortune to bad, or bad fortune to good.’ 
The key word here is change. But more than that, your character must change as a result of his experiences. 
Growing in some way – kinder or more bitter or wiser or more insulated.

“And this is what good plots do: 
They provide a structure and events 
through which your protagonist has painful experiences, learns from them, grows, and triumphs 
in a way that conveys the Big Idea the author has in mind.”

What Writers Can Learn from Harry Potter by Cheryl Klein

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