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“Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before…” quote by Elizabeth Bowen
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“Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the first half of a novel, the unpredictability should be the more striking. In the second half, the inevitability should be the more striking.”

Elizabeth Bowen

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