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Current Talk '08 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #0683
« on: November 28, 2008, 02:30:23 AM »I like the way the hypnosis got Julia and Barnabas absolutely nowhere. It's nice when not everything yields a clue.
I like that too. The temptation is to write a scene only if it pushes things along in the story, but life isn't like that. Often an effort leads nowhere. It helps with suspension of disbelief if you don't know ahead of time they're going to accomplish something (or make things worse!), and without scenes like that one, we would always know. In fact, we generally don't get scenes like that, adding to an artificial, thin feel to stretches of DS. That is definitely over when we reach 1897 of course, and that comes any minute now for all the project watchers, right...?