[stylist] Plot input.

[Alan]

Well, then help me out.  I am trying to create an allegory about using the 
physical heart to understand the emotional one.  That is the whole idea 
behind this.  What reasoning could there be for two living people to swap 
hearts?

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> Allen, This makes no sense.  Even for a fantasy.  If a person has a bad 
> heart making it medically necessary to have a heart transplant, they are 
> not going to replace the heart with a defective heart.  If I were you I'd 
> go back to the drawing board.
> Judith Bron
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>> In this day of transplants, this plot looks plausible. So I'd try it. 
>> (The
>> real test comes in developing the right title for this scenario- like-
>> "trading Hearts" or "I Beat for You" or "My Heart for Yours" or  ???; not
>> trying to be strictly funny but a title is an eye and mind catcher. Any
>> other suggestions for the title?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Robert Leslie Newman
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>> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Alan
>> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 4:48 AM
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>> Subject: [stylist] Plot input.
>>
>> I have an idea for a short story I want to write, but I want input on the
>> strength of the overall idea.  Is it plausible, or am I asking the reader 
>> to
>> suspend disbelief too much?
>>
>> Here's the idea, a couple (I haven't determined married or just lovers) 
>> is
>> struggling with communicating with and understanding each other.  In a
>> strange twist of fate, one (or both) have a heart condition that allows 
>> them
>> to participate in an experimental surgery to literally swap hearts.  The
>> procedure is a success, but as they go the recovery from the surgery, 
>> they
>> disover that they now more deeply understand each other.  Granted, yes, I
>> know, something of a fairy tale, but isn't that what some literature is
>> meant to be?
>>
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