How do you build tension? · 9:45pm Feb 17th, 2020
Of the three stories that I have going right now, I've decided today to do some work on "Danger Close". The next chapter though is going to be tricky, as I have to balance the actual threat from the Storm King Invasion with the tedious process that the defenders have to use in a situation of limited communications to discover the threat. The scenario kind of reminds of the Pearl Harbor attack, where a fairly vague warning was delayed due to telegraph issues, while an actual warning was ignored due to a failure of the imagination as much as anything. I guess one problem is that I don't want to make any one pony the reason for the failure to respond appropriately, especially since the whole show hints at an almost invisible military as it is. I mean, if the Equestrian force was too small or at too low a state of alert, how could they respond properly?
