Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information.
Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too.
one could drown in irrelevance.
When anything can happen, everything matters.
The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual. It was difficult to come back.
Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.