“Intuition” is generally defined as the ability to know or understand something by instinct, without conscious reasoning or analysis. It’s an important piece of the writing process for the vast majority of writers, no matter how analytical they normally are. How important, and in what way, depends
Read more →Understanding how stories work improves one’s ability to put them together better. What many people don’t get is that “understanding” can be intuitive as well as—or instead of—analytical/intellectual. Both ways of understanding are subject to error. The “gut feel” that X is the right thing to do
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