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LizW65:
While working on the climactic scenes of The Sequel, I discovered, somewhat to my surprise, that deliberately writing myself into a corner, setting the scene aside overnight, and then coming back to it worked quite well. In the past, I've gone out of my way to avoid putting characters into impossible situations from which the only apparent escape is 1. death, or 2. some sort of ridiculous deus ex machina, but I found that after a short rest period a third, more workable solution inevitably presented itself.

superpsycho:

--- Quote from: LizW65 on April 14, 2014, 07:04:31 PM ---While working on the climactic scenes of The Sequel, I discovered, somewhat to my surprise, that deliberately writing myself into a corner, setting the scene aside overnight, and then coming back to it worked quite well. In the past, I've gone out of my way to avoid putting characters into impossible situations from which the only apparent escape is 1. death, or 2. some sort of ridiculous deus ex machina, but I found that after a short rest period a third, more workable solution inevitably presented itself.

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Sometimes that's all it takes is a good night sleep or a chance to dream all the variations in the wee hours of the dawn in that mid-state between being awake and being asleep.

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