Please Pay Attention to the Folks Behind The Curtain

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There are a thousand ways to interact with your audience when you’re creating a piece of fiction. You can give them an ambassador character to follow, or throw them in blind. You can tell them what’s going to happen, but not tell your characters, so that they have to watch as a character walks right into the maw of danger. You can even give them someone to root for before revealing that the…