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18.10: Anticipation is More Than Just Making Us Wait

Writing Excuses

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Anticipation, While the Ketchup Comes Out of the Bottle

An important part of anticipation is that you have to know or think you know what's coming. Without knowing that something bad was going to happen, there's no anticipation at all. And one of the things that I will see people do badly with anticipation is try to build tension by creating a mystery around it which is unnecessary.

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