Rule of Three

The Rule of Three

A post at The Kill Zone about the power of three in story structure last week made me think about using threes in the prose itself. I discussed it several years ago, but I think it’s a subject worth revisiting.

There’s something about the “rule of three” that seems ingrained in us as human beings, from the Three Little Pigs, the Three Stooges, to the Third Time’s the Charm. (Did you notice the use of three examples?) As Dr. Doug Lyle said in a comment on the Kill Zone Post I me...