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From: tim@iss.nus.sg (Tim Poston)
Subject: Re: How do you write Romantic I-F ?
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Whitten@Fwva.Saic.Com (David Whitten) writes:
: I was just thinking that one of the prime examples of a basic plot for
: written fiction is
: 	1) Boy meets Girl
: 	2) Boy looses Girl
: 	3) Boy gets Girl back
: 	4) They live happily ever after.

Surely, if he _looses_ her in 2), he should _bind_ her in 1)?

Actually, the standard plot where she turns into a loose
woman usually ends with somebody weeping over her grave.

Tim
