Subject: Flesh out the important bits?
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Posted on: 2015-05-22 22:51:00 UTC
I don't know if you're actually just summarizing the things that happen in X month in the story, but if you are, I'd suggest writing them out fully, each one a little vignette. That way the series of time skips will be less obvious, and we'll get to know the characters better, too. {= )
~Neshomeh
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?
I don't know if you're actually just summarizing the things that happen in X month in the story, but if you are, I'd suggest writing them out fully, each one a little vignette. That way the series of time skips will be less obvious, and we'll get to know the characters better, too. {= )
~Neshomeh
Thank you! I just want to make sure this story is as good as possible. I'm not very experienced with telling stories over lengths of time, so this is all rather new to me. Thank you again; I will try that!
Granted, you'd need good transition sentences to pull it off, otherwise it'll leave readers' heads spinning. ;)
Good luck and focus on your writing journey!