Originally Posted by: acapellaI see your point about rushing past the climax of the story, however I also don't want to make the story about killing. Maybe I should make that part more interesting so you feel less cheated, I'm not sure yet, but I don't want to make it the focus of the story either. So I'll have to think about that for a while.

Ok, here's how to do it in a way that incorporates both the idea of extending the act and avoiding making the story end in some "graphic novel," comic-book ending.


With each blow of the wine bottle, have the speaker's thoughts meander through something related to the frustrations of the stage and the joys of leaving. Punctuate it with every strike.

A rushed example:

The wine bottle came down on his snout. Act III, scene V, yet again. God, the insipid denouement. I hated every second of it. Wine bottle again, smack in the temple.

etc etc.