: Re: How do I tell the story of a societal change using a discrete number of narrators? When I started writing and first tried to characterize my work, I came across a wonderful word: psychogram

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Arguably, the story of the internal life of an individual, in the context of sweeping social events, is a recipe for great literature. "No man is an island": if the world is changing, it's inevitably going to play out in an individual's life. Even a Hero's Journey has a social context. The movie Star Wars is known to be explicitly written as a Hero's Journey, but it's also the story of a war against a fascist state.

If you've already mastered writing the internal life of your protagonist, all you really need to do is fill out the scenery behind him or her. Unless your character is entirely self-absorbed, things like wars, creation or destruction of sub-cultures and so forth are going to to have an impact.

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