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18.27: Framing Stories

Writing Excuses

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The Prestige: A Cool Movie With a Twist

The frame itself can be resonant with the type of story that you're trying to tell. Sometimes this works in completely different way. I keep thinking about this sort of encyclopedia, galactica, like the idea that you're like, encyclopedia entries happen in between chapters which is a form of like a very- It's a Fakers Guide to the Galax. A very formal frame but it also tells you a lot about the world. This is a world where people are documenting what's going on and this story that we're telling is a thing that may be documented one day.

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