How to Use a Tripal Cycle in Dialogue

Western readers are used to the rule of three, that things happen in insets of three. So if you do something that breaks that rule, some one gets an answer in a two count or they get it in a five count, it's going to effect their idea of how difficult something was. When you're thinking about this conversation and thinking about where you are in the course of the overall story, that conversation is part of a triphal cycle of trying to achieve a thing. And so you can decide, ok, i'm going to in this thing. My authorial area of intention is that we advance this much. And my character’s area ofintention is this thing.