"For a great story, you need to have high-#stakes," the self-proclaimed writing expert was saying, but although she'd paid for the seminar, Malina had stopped paying attention. She was sitting at the back, by what was probably a supply closet, and for the past few minutes she'd been rolling a penny through the gap between the door and the floor. Each time, it came rolling back out again. Four times, five. Out it came. And then, the sixth time. A quarter came rolling out!

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I engaged in a nice chat with a bloke and wrote a blog essay on accountability and AI ethics. Well, not exactly. After an extended chat with several LLMs, I asked ChatGPT to output a summary.
👉 https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/the-computer-cannot-cower

I invoke René Girard, Michel Foucault, and Judith Butler

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https://medium.com/the-writers-reach/rising-stakes-force-transformation-94556788d096

Rising Stakes Force Transformation.
Emotional consequence drives urgency.

When stakes rise from the character’s psychology, the story becomes meaningful.

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