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I would have a third party explain the situation. This character, M, says, "we can't get L and S on the same webchat because L won't talk to S since the day." Readers will be clued that there is "...
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System
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2019-12-08T06:51:04Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Tom Au
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2019-12-08T06:51:04Z (almost 5 years ago)
I would have a third party explain the situation. This character, M, says, "we can't get L and S on the same webchat because L won't talk to S since the day." Readers will be clued that there is "something wrong" between L and S, and will be waiting to find out what it is. The resulting suspense could actually be better for your story than to have L and S confront each other early on. Or, as one of my former bosses would say, "Tell me what, before telling me why."
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2017-08-06T23:02:43Z (over 7 years ago)
Original score: 1