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skybrian on Aug 28, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The significance of plot without conflict (2012)

As another example, it's common in novels to have multiple independent storylines that eventually connect. Part of the tension is "what do these two people's stories have to do with each other?"

munificent on Aug 29, 2017 [–]

Yes, I was thinking of exactly that in the shower later. It's one of my favorite ways for an author to build tension.

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