There's no traditional three act structure - or beginning, middle and end - to a family tree. By its nature, it has almost infinite different branches, or episodes, to explore in every direction.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Most of the tree of life is effectively arranged.
There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.
There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
I love the three-act theory. It works and works beautifully. But you don't necessarily have to structure a story that way: Cortazar and Borges wrote in different structural styles.
My first child is going to be the oldest sibling to the next kid, and that may change with each and every year. I'm looking forward to how one baby influences the other, and to my family as a whole, to every single chapter.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
I enjoy a third act, and I like stories with ending. A lot of my frustration with serialized storytelling is a lot of shows don't have a third act. They have an endless second act, and then they find out it's their last year and often have to hustle to invent a third act, but they were never necessarily organically meaning to begin with.
I believe in three-act structure. When I say that to novel people, or people in the world of books, they go, 'Well, that's a film thing.' However, even a good joke has three acts.
Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
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