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Vala
I keep trying to picture how to make the negotiation itself a satisfying climactic scene.
I keep coming up with something like Poirot collecting all concerned parties together and revealing everything he knows in a piecemeal fashion with an eye for the effect his presentation causes, with elements added from:
I'm thinking the reader would go into the scene knowing many things the characters wouldn't, but there'd still need to be an element of mystery: How will it turn out? I'd wonder if maybe I should hint, going in, at multiple potential resolutions, some less pleasant (even if non-violent) than others. Also, whether the ultimate resolution should be none of those, or not quite.
I keep coming up with something like Poirot collecting all concerned parties together and revealing everything he knows in a piecemeal fashion with an eye for the effect his presentation causes, with elements added from:
- The Capulets and Montagues discovering their children had been in love and had committed suicide from grief
- Muad'Dib's "negotiation" with the Emperor
- Any number of courtroom drama scenes, in which revealed secrets have powerful effects.
I'm thinking the reader would go into the scene knowing many things the characters wouldn't, but there'd still need to be an element of mystery: How will it turn out? I'd wonder if maybe I should hint, going in, at multiple potential resolutions, some less pleasant (even if non-violent) than others. Also, whether the ultimate resolution should be none of those, or not quite.