Amour: looks easy, but isn’t
Story Nerd · Mar 4, 2026 · 29:44
Story Nerd · Mar 4, 2026 · 29:44
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HEADS-UP! Amour is beautiful but heavy (have the tissue ready!).
Do you want to write gritty stories that leave readers grief struck long after they read THE END and close the book? Amour is a fantastic template for a complex moral problem that will never be resolved. This is another example of how a story can have an arc when the protagonist is constant. And Valerie does a stellar job of working out who or what the force of antagonism is and how the speech in praise of the villain applies when the antagonist isn't obvious. -M.
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