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Matthew Dicks: Crafting a Story ("News of Divorce")

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The Importance of Stakes

Stakes are not a concern of mine anymore because lots of important terrible stuff is going to happen and I can build lots of stakes into that very simply but this initial opening scene is fairly stickless. The other thing that I haven't revealed to you yet is the surprises of the story now I identified them right away but I sort of wanted to hold them back from you so that I could surprise you with them as I was going through this process. Henry Henry is going to be an easy surprise to pull off I'm just going to identify Henry as a hooligan as a criminal as a tough kid as someone who I'm desperately seeking attention from. When we meet Henry at the back of

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