While Tim Parks doesn’t want to be prescriptive, he offers his own techniques as inspiration:
Getting a sense of the values around which the story is organizing itself isn’t always easy; I might change my mind two or three times. But let’s say that the mere attempt to do that gives me something to look for.
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