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I think you can get away with it, using an approach such as Lauren suggests, with one important caveat. You need to make sure that the stakes are higher than last time. If you have not raised the s...
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2020-01-03T20:41:52Z (almost 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T05:56:02Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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2019-12-08T05:56:02Z (almost 5 years ago)
I think you can get away with it, using an approach such as Lauren suggests, with one important caveat. You need to make sure that the stakes are higher than last time. If you have not raised the stakes, it is going to seem like a skipping record, the same passage repeating over and over again. (Does the metaphor of the skipping record still work these days? Old vinyl LPs could get a scratch in them that would make the needle skip back into the previous groove so that the same section of music played again and again.) Remember that a story arc is about rising tension. If your crew is going around collecting items, the tension needs to rise for each item they collect. There are lots of ways for it to rise, but if it does not, the reader will just feel they are being told the same incident over and over even if they details are different. You can even work the back to the treasury angle to your advantage here, since the assumption that the item can't also be there can be an additional distraction that keeps the tension rising.
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2017-01-14T12:49:10Z (almost 8 years ago)
Original score: 3