DAY 221: IF YOU INTRODUCE A REVOLVER...

     My high school English teacher taught us about Chekhov's Gun.  It's a literary technique that came from Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, who said: "if in Act I you have a pistol hanging on the wall, then it must fire in the last act."  My teacher, Mr. Dunbar referred to it as a revolver, but same difference.  Bottom line, if you introduce a revolver in your story then you must circle back to it by the end.  Otherwise why introduce it in the first place?