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18.30: Planting Supernatural Seeds

Writing Excuses

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Introduction

In Dark One Forgotten, it is clearly a supernatural story. But we pretend like it's not for about three episodes until it becomes something inarguable. What do we get by delaying that reveal or making it obvious instead of just being right up front about it? We need to invest in characters as people before we really care about them when they're in conflict or in danger.

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