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17.33: Building Tension

Writing Excuses

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The Law of the Half Step

Tension is best described in terms of waiting for the other shoe to drop, waiting for a thing to resolve so that i can let out this breath. A dean contz wrote a book called intensity, which functioned that way for me. There were these little resolutions at every step, but with each resolution, there was a new twist that maintained the tension.

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