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How To Tell a Story Worth Hearing with Matthew Dicks
The Long Game
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There's also disappointment when it's too, too clean. The dux makina kind of thing where at the end it was all a dream, or some miraculous plot kind of saves the story line. That's always disappointing to an audience. We really do want to feel like this is a causal chain that's being built and every link is essential. If one link broke, the story would not hold up any more. And that's a good way to determine whether your story is too long or even good. Can we take a scene out, and is the story still making sense? We'll then take the scene out. No, ye. It can be disappointing when things don't
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