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#462: How to Tell Better Stories

The Art of Manliness

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The Importance of Embellishment

I always say that I have never in my life added something to a story that was not already in the story. So embellishment for me is the removal of material that my audience doesn't want to hear and doesn't serve my story very well. Or it might be sort of the compression of time. A story that takes place on a Saturday and a Sunday for me, I might jam into one day, just a Saturday. And they don't need to know that I went to bed and then I woke up the next morning and things continued. That's the kind of embellishment that I believe in.

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