For those who don't already know, I'm trying to write a realistic Tenth Walker story. At the moment, my OC is in Bree, learning the Common Tongue. She's be there for roughly a year, and then she'll be on her way to Rivendell, bearing her sick friend and accompanied by Halbarad the Ranger. But that's not important yet.

The thing is, I'm having trouble balancing telling the story and not boring my audience to tears. Amy, as I said, is in Bree for a year, and almost nothing exciting happens. At the moment, my story is basically going "This month came, here's the only two noteworthy things in it, and then there was this month, and other stuff happened." And I don't think that's good storytelling on my part. At the same time, I can't tell the story day by day, maybe not even week by week- it would a) take forever and b) be incredibly uninteresting. So.. any suggestions?