"I tried outlining, tried to understand three-act structure, tried to impose a plot, but kept coming back to my sense that I just needed to follow Paul, that my structure was going to have to be a little queer as well ... I realised my reluctance had to do with my understanding of how people change, how I've changed β really slowly, recursively, making the same mistakes over and over."
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On composing the structure of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, from an interview with Jordy Rosenberg (2018)
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