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Time Line Helps You Plot
Time Line Helps You Plot I know that my new novel will take place over a 98 hour span of time. So, I’m working with those 98 hours, creating and structuring the time line of the story in these ways.
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Separate POV chapters
More Than One POV? Split to Revise My current draft of my WIP novel has two point of view characters. I’ve just copied each POV into its own separate file to revise and edit. Voice. The main reason for this is to work on getting a consistent voice for each point of view. When they…
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Transitions
Transitions: Filling in the Time Line I’m at a tricky place in my revision where I need a good transition. There’s a time gap. Certain events need to take place in late October and November, but I’m at about the 4th of July on the story’s time line. I need to get on with the…
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Backstory
by Darcy Pattison Last week, I made a few comments about backstory, but I wanted to spend more time on it. Impact of Reading SFF Many of my thoughts about backstory are shaped by the needs of fantasy and science fiction writing (sff) where the writer creates a world, complete with complex histories and magical…
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The mystery of mysteries
I am trying to write a short story mystery. Mysteries have always been mysterious to me until I read one day that mysteries are really two time lines: there’s the time line of what really happened and the time line of the detective finding out what really happened. So, here’s my current process and it…