Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Deleted Scenes
Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2015 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.
A few deleted sentences from a piece I'm drafting:
One way to understand suspense is that it's the state of having multiple conflicting valid causal models, or not having enough information to even form a single satisfying prediction.
Each protagonist gets impressive moments of awesome competence and agency. But, like levelling up in a game, it's still constrained by the sandbox (which is of course more realistic than the Matrix solution).
The big science fictional twist is that you are far less significant than you had imagined.
But they require less genre expertise than, say, "Four Kinds of Cargo" or the trope review at the start of Anathem.
Comments
danima
27 Feb 2015, 17:48 p.m.
If this is what's being deleted, I hope you'll post a link when we can see what's left in!