Timeline for Effectively defusing tension after a first act climax/peak, even though the characters themselves aren't relaxed
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| Apr 16, 2022 at 1:37 | history | edited | DWKraus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 15, 2022 at 18:21 | comment | added | DWKraus | @KeizerHarm if you need to bleed off a lot of tension fast, you need a catharsis. That can be a celebration (funeral/celebration of life/drunken binge) or a victory (blowing up the bad guy's base spectacularly, killing a major enemy), or a revelation about reality that changes perceptions so much as to silence conversation (he's Darth Vader's son) . You can shift the perspective character to someone who isn't involved with the tension (a medic tending the team) but I don't like a lot of perspective shifts. | |
| Apr 15, 2022 at 18:01 | comment | added | KeizerHarm | I appreciate the answer, but I would like to clarify one thing: I don't want to cut off processing, I want to defuse tension, for the moment. This is the end of the first act, the ramifications both personal and political will be, are being explored over the course of the next forty pages. That includes all kinds of healing. I just want the reader to be able to take a breath of fresh air until those tensions resurface. | |
| Apr 15, 2022 at 17:24 | history | edited | DWKraus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 15, 2022 at 14:11 | history | edited | DWKraus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 15, 2022 at 14:05 | history | answered | DWKraus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |