
Episode 6: An Interlude with Spreadsheets (with guest star Jenn Lyons!)
Worldbuilding for Masochists
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The Mystery Box
Writers can usually tell when writers are just throwing cool potentially unanswered questions as hooks and that they don't actually know the answers to. If you haven't planned it out in advance if you don't know what the answer is you're going to have an ending like lost or any number of other examples where writers clearly didn't knowWhat the answer to their hooks were. "I hate the mystery box" says author about not leaving unnecessary red herrings for your reader because that can break reader trust no two degreeOkay so i do like since i have the whole world map laid out it means that i can reference countries um like marshall or marshall ryan raskin sorry i have to
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