There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
—Alfred Hitchcock
Good writing advice, especially if you combine this with the principle of Chekov’s gun. Too often writers are eager to release the tension. Once the gun goes off, adding another doesn’t bring back the tension, it just lowers you to the level of a talentless hack like Michael Bay and those who spew out Netflix drivel. Hitchcock is still the master of suspense because he understood this decades ago.
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