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17.13: Structuring Around a Thing

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How to Structure a Book Around a Board Game

Pon: I'm thinking about how i could structure a book around a board game, a rule set, or ao video game kind of thing. The first umanji movie, we know we are at the end game when someone has rolled the dice and could land right on the finishe lineyou know,. It's, it's a progress bar, ye. So and recent gemanti movies have done the same thing with a video game. They establish right up front, these are the rules of the game. This is how this works. And then uses that structure to create humor, to create tension, to let us know what their end goal is. Te n yo talk

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