Jemini
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Paradoxically enough, as I consider all the different stories I have read, it actually is large changes to the formula of your story that help to maintain your through-line. As paradoxical as that sounds, it's completely true.
I think this might be because when you change up the formula, you need to pay even more attention to that 1 element of your through-line which is the 1 thing that remains the same from one phase of the story to the next.
Make it an engaging and relatable through-line, and you can keep the story going for hundreds and hundreds of chapters while still having an engaging story. Loose that through-line, and your story falls flat. Stay too long on one theme, the story will grow stale. Even if you keep your through-line in such a stale 1-note story, you are not forcing the through-line to apply any real work or make itself known if the story doesn't stress it enough by changing up the formula. So, you will also loose it that way by way of it just fading into obscurity like an atrophying unused muscle.
I think this might be because when you change up the formula, you need to pay even more attention to that 1 element of your through-line which is the 1 thing that remains the same from one phase of the story to the next.
Make it an engaging and relatable through-line, and you can keep the story going for hundreds and hundreds of chapters while still having an engaging story. Loose that through-line, and your story falls flat. Stay too long on one theme, the story will grow stale. Even if you keep your through-line in such a stale 1-note story, you are not forcing the through-line to apply any real work or make itself known if the story doesn't stress it enough by changing up the formula. So, you will also loose it that way by way of it just fading into obscurity like an atrophying unused muscle.