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How to use secrets in your fiction: Part 2

How to use secrets in your fiction: Part 2

What the The Lion King teaches us about using secrets to write powerful stories

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May 13, 2025
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Hello! This is the final part of a two part series that explores the types of secrets we can use in our fiction, using The Lion King as an example. You can read part one here.

Writers can use secrets as a tool to complicate their stories, reveal character, establish the stakes of their fictional world, and so much more. My intention with this post is two…

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