ironpony wrote:
or should I just have it told completely from the villain's POV at that point and the cops bust in by complete surprise to the reader more so. But either way it will happen, just wondering if I should show the set up of the bust or have it be a surprise.
Ah, okay. I had understood the question to be about whether to show the bust at all with or without surrounding detail.
I'm not sure I could pull it off, but it might be fun to have something which the careful reader would pick up as implying or foreshadowing there might be a bust a little while before the bust happens as a total surprise to the villain.
Actually, I kind of like the concept of the readers sharing the villain's surprise at the bust.
Being a skilled enough writer to have earlier give the readers a thing where after the bust the readers can go, "Ya know, now that the bust has happened, yeah, I can see that thing back there did kinda hint at it. Aw man, I shoulda caught that!" would be a lot of fun.
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