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Writing Excuses 10.31: How Do I Control the Reader’s Sense of Progress?

Writing Excuses

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Bolo Strike by William Keith

Tone affects the way a promise is perceived. If we had seen Bumbling inventor and it was a gritty, noir sort of thing at the beginning, the promise that we would then be expecting is that one of his inventions is going to go terribly wrong and kill everybody. There's an intersection between these. So you need to understand that so that when you get to the middle and you're trying to fulfill these,. trying to make sure that you're making progress towards these things, that you know whether you are building towards happily ever after? Yes. Or doom.

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