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I'm working on a branching narrative kind of story, and the entire story focuses on the reader uncovering a mystery in the house that they're in. There's only one ending where they survive. In th...
#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T12:11:16Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/45960 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
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tryin
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2019-12-08T12:11:16Z (almost 5 years ago)
I'm working on a branching narrative kind of story, and the entire story focuses on the reader uncovering a mystery in the house that they're in. There's only one ending where they survive. In the other ones, the loose ends remain unknown, since they're dead, but to tie them up in this ending, I would need to jump several years in the future (it's written in present tense and second person, which will probably affect the time jump too). What are some conventions or devices I can work with to make the jump less abrupt and out of place? (My epilogue isn't a lot of info - think "You've been doing x for y years, Villains #1 and #2 are currently doing z, Innocents #2 and #3 are much better, Innocent #1 is dead". The main point of this epilogue is to let the reader know that the "good" ending comes with collateral damage)
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-06-13T12:40:50Z (over 5 years ago)
Original score: 4