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Genius for technical presentations. I must admit, though, I’m always turned off when entertainment mediums do this (fiction novels, TV Shows, etc.). If the act
by herpdyderp 2y ago
Genius for technical presentations.
I must admit, though, I’m always turned off when entertainment mediums do this (fiction novels, TV Shows, etc.). If the action sequence doesn’t need any background info to make sense, I argue you can just skip the background info altogether. Don’t ramp the pace up and then drop it back down to nothing so quickly.
- HPsquared 2y agoNews stories do this a lot, particularly sports or politics. But I suppose they lead with the most important part of the story so there's a reason for it.
- wongarsu 2y agoIn entertainment mediums it often feels like a last-minute band-aid. A novel ramps up too slowly, test readers are giving up on the story before the interesting stuff happens, so the editor suggests "let's just put that cool fight scene in chapter 10 in the beginning so people know what the book is really about". That rarely works well