Narrative Structure
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How to Build Suspense in a Story
I don't even really think about what the climax of a story is. I just think about how we build something up when Jillian my wife and I who she's a choreographer we've done a few pieces together collaborative theater pieces. And with dance you know dance sort of throws out classic narrative entirely unless you're talking about early 20th century ballet but it mostly throws out that classic narrative so you have to build through physical energy in the space. So are there ways to build suspense in a story to build that energetic tension without placing the climax kind of right there at the whatever three quarter or 90% mark of a story like are there way to have a story that doesn't follow that
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