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Originally Posted by crich70
I'd say use humor sparingly to break tension if it gets too high. If you use it too much then the story becomes slapstick.
To a certain extent real people do sometimes appear in fictional stories but you have to be very careful especially when you have living people involved. Otherwise you can find yourself the defendant in a lawsuit.
I think it would make a story more intense and full of tension if the hero slowly builds up to what the baddie is doing. You see it all the time in TV shows like "Criminal Minds." Someone is missing or a body is found and the team investigates it. Then it turns out that what was thought to be one crime is actually multiple crimes and then the race is on to find clues that point to who the killer is before he/she can kill their next victim.
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It's going to be flat-out funny though. In the skeleton of a thriller though. I don't know what the genre will be. Genre-less probably.
Yep, will stay away from real people. Life is hard enough without getting sued.
I like the advice ala "Criminal Minds." Have seen that sort of thing so many times and it really works. Think my protagonist would know the full extent of what the antagonist is up to by say the 25% mark? (I'm looking for a %.) That sounds right to me anyway.
Thanks buddy.