Deus Ex Machina.
God from the machine.
Writing tool? Or something we should avoid?
Paddy, James, and Phoenix dive into this very topic in this episode of Prose and Cons.
Like with most genres and writing “rules,” it helps to do your research so you can properly be in conversation with the thing you’re trying to talk about or use—you have to learn the rules to break them, and in the case of Deus Ex Machina A T-REX COMES CRASHING THROUGH THE WALL AND ENDS THE PODCAST DESCRIPTION!
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