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18.15: Building a Mystery, Now With More Tools
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Howard Kurtz: Building a mystery, now with more tools. How do you apply anticipation to mysteries? What are some of the classic ways we've seen it done? He says for his own part, I start with what is the answer to the original unanswered question and then make notes about where I want readers to feel different things.
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