Episode 159: Ira Glass
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How Do You Write a Story for the Radio?
A plot creates the question of what will happen next. All you need for narrative suspense is a question. The forward motion of plot does a bunch of things, and one of them is that it makes it hard to turn the thing off. It's just like a hugely ancient form, like jesu's sermons in the bible. And then all you need for, you know, the forward motion of pot is is any kind of movement at all through through space or through action. Is most mundane. But pot can be even, it can be even more monday.
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