Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 11 hours ago

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This week on On Story, Julie Plec, the creator, show runner and creative mind behind the lauded teen drama series, The Vampire Diaries, divulges the essentials for successful supernatural world-building and her process molding a series and its many spinoffs that captivated a generation.

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