All stories get more complicated the further you
get into them.
This isn’t a bad thing, it’s just inevitable. The
reader starts off knowing nothing, and over the course of the story they get
fed more and more information.
If it’s a properly written story anything the
reader is told will be relevant to further developments. That means they have
to remember everything that’s happened so far and how it relates to everything
else that’s also happened and everything that’s going to happen.
This network of events, consequences and reactions
will get ever more intricate. To the point where it can become so overwhelming that
when a character says, “Hey, Mary’s back!” all the reader thinks is, Who the hell is Mary?
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