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For writers checking the events of their own story, this note turns one 1908 chapter on the nature of narrative into ten questions, such as series against mere succession, cause and effect, and action, actors and setting. It is curator analysis, untested, and the chapter's claims are historical, not proven.
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Hamilton on narrative: ten story checks drawn from Chapter III of Materials and Methods of Fiction (1908)
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For writers checking the events of their own story, this note turns one 1908 chapter on the nature of narrative into ten questions, such as series against mere succession, cause and effect, and action, actors and setting. It is curator analysis, untested, and the chapter's claims are historical, not proven.
Useful starting points
- Hamilton separates a series of events, linked by cause and effect, from events that only follow one another in time.
- An event needs action, actors and setting together; if one is missing, ask what to add rather than adding more of the others.
- Try tracing one daily-life event back to its causes and forward to its likely effects as a narrative exercise.
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