Lambert says that, "Good writing has a destination and seeks the shortest path to the destination, but no shorter." At first I wasn't a fan of this as I feel like the journey of a story, not just the end is important, and a story and can still have done something well even if it's conclusion is unsatisfactory, but upon further reflection I realized that everything accomplished on the journey is part of the destination, every world or image of a story is part of the destination in itself no matter its placement in the story chronologically (if the story is told is told properly) and the overall destination is supposed to be the harmony of all these accomplishments.
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