If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.
William GoldmanButtercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)
William Goldman[Prince Humperdinck] was seventy-five minutes away from his first female murder, and he wondered if he could get his fingers to her throat before even the start of a scream. He had been practicing on giant sausages all the afternoon and had the movements down pretty pat, but then, giant sausages werenโt necks and all the wishing in the world wouldnโt make them so.
William Goldman