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In my previous post about narrative structure, I discussed the different parts of plot. Like I said before, this model will help you write your own work and/or evaluate/study how other writers craft their narratives. But while this narrative structure is strong, I would like to make an addition to it: the tipping point.
Malcolm Gladwell defines the tipping point as "the one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change."[1] He explains that every tipping point has three characteristics: contagiousness, little things adding up to big things, and change happening in the blink of an eye. ThroughoutThe Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Gladwell cites countless examples of this phenomena in order to help us understand why some ideas and business take off and others do not. In the bowls of what used to be Robinson A at George Mason—for as I type this the building is either a) in the process of being demolished or b) has been demolished - in a cubicle of a classroom - that should have been somebody's office - I, along with twenty-one other aspiring fiction writers, watched our professor draw the following diagram onto the whiteboard:
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