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For bigger, structural changes, it’s essentially outlining it again, but you already know the story so it’s easier the second time around.

I suppose I should do something like that as well.

*Deep sigh*

My sentiments exactly.

Are there any books/media that aged particularly well or poorly for you?

For one thing, I’m better at finding flaws in movies (and by better, I mean I’m probably rather fastidious about it xD). As for books, I tend analyze prose more, but usually to learn from them, not nip-picking them like I do plot points in movies. I was already really hard on characters and relationships in books, and that has only increased. However, even after writing a novel, I’m still rather lenient with plot, even if events are sometimes unrealistic, I usually don’t mind too much.

Behold the Dawn by K. M. Weiland is still my favorite stand alone novel hands down, and having studied characters and structure myself now, I  love it all the more. The Blackthorn Key series’s prose don’t hold up great, but they are structured well and I love the characters.

The Hunger Games is structured well and has a great character arc, but after studying side characters and internal conflict, I learned two things: One (in my opinion obviously), Gail is a perfect example of a side character who is not developed much and is rather boring (I really wouldn’t care much at all if he just keeled over dead). And two, book three (which I have not finished yet, so I suppose this could be a hasty judgement), is a good example of how great internal conflict and character arc can not make a story good by itself.

I read a lot of mystery books that aren’t really structured around a three act story structure much, and they’re still great (Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Willike Collins, Will Thomas).

How about you?