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Managing Fictional Narrative Flow - Epiphany
Unit Completion Date: End of Week 9
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You can also employ an understanding of the technique of raising dramatic questions in scenes to ensure you have enough dramatic tension in your story. Make a note of passages in your story that seem to be lacking dramatic tension. If the passage is a scene, then you have likely either not brought opposing forces into actual conflict, or you have not presented the conflict vividly enough, and you need to work on the scene more. If the passage is narrative summary, then it's possible you haven't condensed the information enough and you need to move through it more quickly.
It's also possible, though, that the problem is not with the passage itself but rather with the preceding scene. As your reader exits each scene, there ought to be at least one question you can identify for which the reader should be eager to find an answer. Examine the scene that directly precedes the summary and see if there is a such a question. If not, you should try to add one. If so, you may need others to help carry the reader forward.
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This concludes the Epiphany section of this discussion unit.
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