I know chains to block harbors have been used in real history. It's the cuendillar bit that baffles me. And it turns out to be not that important? Great. So glad we spent all that time building it up.
Regarding the spacing-out of conclusions, it's a real challenge in writing novels, and even more so in series. You don't want to spread things out so much that by the time you get to your Final Throwdown the reader feels like most of the tension is gone; but if you try to wrap up everything at once, it gets so unwieldy that readers can barely follow what's going on. There's no easy solution to it, but I think we can all agree this approach is not ideal.
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Date: 2011-07-25 09:28 pm (UTC)Regarding the spacing-out of conclusions, it's a real challenge in writing novels, and even more so in series. You don't want to spread things out so much that by the time you get to your Final Throwdown the reader feels like most of the tension is gone; but if you try to wrap up everything at once, it gets so unwieldy that readers can barely follow what's going on. There's no easy solution to it, but I think we can all agree this approach is not ideal.