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Frazzled Lit's avatar

Great piece, Matt! My own experience concurs with yours, that I have to tell a good story first. Maybe halfway in, I'll perceive a deeper thread and steer the story to weave it into the narrative, but I've also found that in workshopping a piece, readers find new and unexpected meanings. Truth is, I often don't know what a story is about until someone else tells me. It can often be an 'A-ha!' moment for me when that happens, and I wonder how I didn't see it before. I think every reader brings a little of themselves to a story, and reads it through the lens of their own life experiences, hence we can take away very different messages from a tale.

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Sarah Frances's avatar

Loved this piece, Matt. Thank you.

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