12.41: Raising the Stakes

Published: Oct. 8, 2017, 10 p.m.

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\\nWhen we talk about "raising the stakes," we mean making the outcomes of the events in a story increasingly important to the reader. In this episode we talk about the tools we use to raise the stakes in ways that are more sophisticated than just queuing up\\xa0larger and larger explosions.
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