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[desperance]

Two pages, and there's the climax: right there. Plummeting to the depths. I could stop this scene and move on, leave the reader to fill in the gaps. (That would make it three pages, by the way. Same number of words, but the next scene is a new chapter gets a clean new page to start on. These are the little ways we like to cheat, and one reason why I still count progress in pages rather than words.) Or I could explore a little more, narrate a little more, examine, consider, predict...

I dunno. I think maybe I'll move on, and see if anyone thinks they were shortchanged. Not that art is a democracy or anything, but hey. Never let it be said that I will not listen. I'll always listen...