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So I was thinking about the "car chase" idea late last night when I was supposed to be sleeping but it was -40C outside which makes for some discomfort when you sleep near a door and a window, and I also came up with two neat hooks for stories I'll never write, but I digress.

So I'm visualizing how a car chase could come about, and it reminds me that one character was intrigued that Mike could move around safely. Mike laughs this off. Small town. Aha, but what if he wasn't safe?

Picture him leaving Maggie and gets that followed feeling. Only... safe harbour is across town instead of around the corner. He's jogging. Nervous. Pounding footsteps behind him. Right before the follower(s) get him, up comes [Sharon Stone] in a shiny red corvette (Don't laugh. Work with me here).

Sharon (Doing her lipstick in the rearview mirror) Get in
Mike: Who re you? I don't know you.
Sharon: No time like the present

Mike hops in, and Sharon takes off. Baddies show up in a beat up truck with one headlight that always seems to be turning onto the road behind the corvette as Sharon races it.

(Queue info drop while race continues)

Crash!

Mike wakes up in bed. Was that a dream?

shapeshifter, you say. Ear perks up.

Maybe they got killed off camera, hence the disappearance

I'm a big fan of self-contained sub-stories contributing to a greater story. Gives the reader less to commit on initially. Having to commit to a lot of reading is a downer for me, and what keeps me from reading Patrick Brown-- the knowledge that I have a bazillion books to read before I get any satisfaction

I like Norm's suggestions, and I do it in my central story where the passage of time is often decades or centuries.

Another trick in my tool bag are use a child character (who's let's say is a sixyo playing with blocks).
Need a soft time change? Child has grained basic reading.
Need a hard time change? Cut over her 8th birthday party.
Yes, I just used this trick, and yes, you'll see reviewers asking for age confirmations, but that's just reading gaps

Object? No... rather, I question that only the one sense is being used. No scent of sulfur... cracking of phosphorous or screams of the damned. Taste of blood in the air... I wonder if eyes are the ideal fallback

Q: Why is a demon having sex going to remove the supernatural element?

To be fair, the books rehashed old concepts. If they stayed remotely close to the books (eg Ray's parents) then the plot will come across as non fresh

'Tis a bit of a tennis match. One solution may be to group actions to reduce camera movement