How much technical detail do you actually want in a thriller? Enough to trust it, enough to understand it, or almost none if the consequences feel real?
Nobody talks about the stage of reading classic literature where you stop reading for the plot and start reading just to figure out which mental illness the author had.
My shrink was visibly upset when he found out I'd cut his scene from the manuscript. This is the same man who advised me to stop playing with metafiction. I'm not sure how to proceed.