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Matthew Dicks teaches you to think and write like a master storyteller

How I Work

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How to Deliberately Increase the Stakes in a Story

Kurt Vonnegut says start stories as close to the end as possible. How do you deliberately increase the stakes in a story? The easiest way is just to make it funny, he says. He wants people to feel like they've gone through an emotional journey with that storyteller.

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