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The greatest problem any apprentice writer has with novels is how to structure them. The reason for this is a paradox that affects us all when we move from being readers to writers. As readers, our experience is mostly passive: we respond to cues given by the author and follow the story they’ve laid out for us. We turn the pages and the chapters flow naturally into each other. Characters develop and