You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.
But it wouldn__ have half the power of a story in which Jamie and Claire truly conquer real evil and thus show what real love is. Real love has real costs__nd they__e worth it. I__e always said all my books have a shape, and Outlander__ internal geometry consists of three slightly overlapping triangles. The apex of each triangle is one of the three emotional climaxes of the book: 1) when Claire makes her wrenching choice at the stones and stays with Jamie, 2) when she saves Jamie from Wentworth, and 3) when she saves his soul at the abbey. It would still be a good story if I__ had only 1 and 2__ut (see above), the Rule of Three. A story that goes one, two, three, has a lot more impact than just a one__wo punch.
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But it wouldn__ have half the power of a story in which Jamie and Claire truly conquer real evil and thus show what real love is. Real love has real costs__nd they__e worth it. I__e always said all my books have a shape, and Outlander__ internal geometry consists of three slightly overlapping triangles. The apex of each triangle is one of the three emotional climaxes of the book: 1) when Claire makes her wrenching choice at the stones and stays with Jamie, 2) when she saves Jamie from Wentworth, and 3) when she saves his soul at the abbey. It would still be a good story if I__ had only 1 and 2__ut (see above), the Rule of Three. A story that goes one, two, three, has a lot more impact than just a one__wo punch.
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