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Originally Posted by dadioflex
How far back are you going? Could you give examples of this please. I'd say they might have the climactic scene about 7/8s in and spend too long making sure everybody was properly dealt with, but half? Hmm.
I wouldn't use old books as an example, unless you're writing pastiche. Modern readers wouldn't put up with the exposition and reliance on telling over showing the story. IMO.
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Was a lecture I had for my class in grad school goes, looking at literary methods of older stuff... as in 1000-1500 B.C. kind of older. One of hem was to have the conflict climax near middle, then fall off with resolution of conflict being somewhat anti-climatic towards the end.
Just made me wonder if any of that kind of thing still happens today.