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18.27: Framing Stories

Writing Excuses

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How to Add a Frame to Your Story

The reason so many epic fantasies have that frame scope is it gives this sense of grandiosity, of scale in a way that's hard to do when you're just staying in the characters' perspectives. These are real opportunities for you to be very playful with time, with POV, with a sense of inevitability in dread and I think that can just make things feel bigger, right?

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