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That's true. The interesting thing is how D&D creates branching trees of inverted periods, scene by scene and character by character.

In great fiction, IMO, there's usually something big that you are not certain of yet that makes it propulsive. Sometimes it's "which hard choice will the character make in a given scene?" D&D offloads that decision to the players.

With journalism and I guess alt text, you have one big inverted pyramid, and then a recipe for sentence structure that attempts to pack all the relevant facts in for each node. It's actually trying to front-load how it eliminates the unknowns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ws



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