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#462: How to Tell Better Stories

The Art of Manliness

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How to Create Suspense in a Story

The stakes in the middle can be things that just like you think things are going to go a certain direction, but then they just fall flat. I'm always asking myself, is my audience wondering about something right now? If they're not wondering, if they're not worried or concerned or in suspense, that means I'm losing them. And so one of the tactics that I liked was like the backpack where you pack a metaphorical backpack full of things that you could possibly use to solve the problem.

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