How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams

Author:Scott Adams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2013-09-22T16:00:00+00:00

Setup

There’s only one important rule for a story setup: Keep it brief. And I mean really brief, as in “So, I took my car in for a brake job . . .” That’s it. Don’t tell us the problem with the brakes. Don’t tell us what made you think you had a brake problem, unless for some reason it is relevant. Try to keep your setup to one sentence, two at most.

Pattern

Establish a pattern that your story will violate. For example, you could say, “Whenever I take my car for any kind of service, I’m always amazed how expensive it is.” That establishes the pattern. Now we know that what follows will be a violation of the pattern. And we call that hint of things to come . . .

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