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B&A: Can you help me get through the in between part so I can get to the action?

  • I'm working on my story, and write now, the characters at home with her mom and sister, and I need to get to the part in the morning where she leaves and goes back to the HQ and starts her mission. But i can't just say she has to go to bed, than it wouldn't feel real. So I have to write out another conversation to fill in to make things realistic, but it feels like its dragging, the whole in between chapter I mean. Any tips on how to not make it drag and get this part over with?

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    That seems to be my biggest problem when I am writing. I always have trouble with the middle. I am not sure if this helps, but what helps me is I imagine myself as the character, and I try and think of how the next part would happen, "if" it were happening in real life.Like, what happens at your house when you are trying to go to bed or end the day? Also something to remember is, you know your reading a good book when nothing is going on, and all of a sudden something happens...like a emergency phone call for example. That is all I really have to suggest...hope it helps.

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An argument over something. dinner conversation her sister wants to talk about "something" important.

Jen[Chocolate Burn]

If that "conversation" you want to include does not advance the story, or tell the reader something important about the characters, then don't force it in. If it feels like it's "dragging," then it probably IS dragging.

Vince M

When I have *in between* dilemmas such as this, I tend to just draw from real life. Sometimes I'll even go so far as to wander into the lounge and have a conversation with my Mum/siblings. Then I just import it straight into the book. Problem solved :)

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It's not very particular, but you could have them have a short, regular conversation, but the sister or the mom say something that will help her later on on the mission.

don't make it an in between chapter, or if you have to, make it a dream world, or if your trying to kick off the story or make it good, she can be attacked by your bad guys crony during the knight, or she argues with her sister who then leaves the house and gets captured by the bad guy, forcing the hero/heroin to go and find her. it so much more interesting when the family gets involved hey, speaking of story' what do you think of this? http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AlmZoVVIgozZEun.an8NnOqf5HNG;_ylv=3?qid=20101028092626AAiHHlt

Melanie Baker

You dont' need to give the reader every single detail of your character's life. We dont' need to know every time she goes to bed or gets up in the morning. Skip it and start the next scene with her at work. Reread your favorite books to see how authors transition from scene-to-scene.

Joss

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