... Or, as I prefer to think of it, a Mac Gyver-style "Opening Gambit".
How to do that, in a prose story? It's for a trickster character, the protagonist of works that are long novellas or short novels (30k to 50k words I imagine), so spending 2-5 pages on such a "gambit" is eminently affordable
But can it be made to work well in written form? Especially doing it as a deliberate Mac Gyver-homage (even though the character himself isn't a Mac Gyver homage)?
... Or, as I prefer to think of it, a Mac Gyver-style "Opening Gambit".
How to do that, in a prose story? It's for a trickster character, the protagonist of works that are long novellas or short novels (30k to 50k words I imagine), so spending 2-5 pages on such a "gambit" is eminently affordable
But can it be made to work well in written form? Especially doing it as a deliberate Mac Gyver-homage (even though the character himself isn't a Mac Gyver homage)?