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18.10: Anticipation is More Than Just Making Us Wait

Writing Excuses

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You're Out of Excuses. Now Go Write

One of the main beats in a mystery is the twist. The twist does not work unless you have the reader anticipate something else. Have a look at your current work in progress and ask yourself are there genre tropes that you can subvert? This has been Writing Excuses. You're out of excuses. Now go write.

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