Ouroboros24 said:
You're right. But hey, if you're still interested, just ask. |
The thing is, your protagonist knows what he is looking for, and your readers know that he knows. So you spend the whole book writing around it until the end?
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’