Understanding the “Event-Reaction-Consequence” cycle

Dale Thomas
3 min readFeb 12, 2023

And how it can bring your prose to the next level

What do you think of this scene snippet?

The zombie lunged at Alice with arms outstretched and gnashing teeth aimed at her neck. She let out an involuntary gasp as every muscle in her body pulled taught with adrenaline. The fingers of her right hand turned white as they twisted around the hammer’s…

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Dale Thomas

Scifi writer, roboticist, and game developer, 2x Quora Top Writer. I write about writing speculative fiction, computer graphics, AI, evolution, and programming.