How to write a time skip

Guest poster Disha Walia shares five ways you can manage a time skip in your writing so that your readers don’t get confused.

Follow these 11 steps and you will have a memorable scene in your story.

TIME SKIP

This storytelling hack is a game-changer for both pantsers and plotters. ✌🏼✨ (Seriously, this is writer gold. Print it out and post it up where you write.) 😘

How to begin a story: skip dream sequences, wakeup scenes, and long character introductions. Start as close to the action as possible.

"Show, don’t tell" is the foundation of dramatic storytelling. Failing to show important scenes in your story is one of the most common writing mistakes.

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I skip around these steps so much with all my ships it's a wonder I'm sane.

So, chapters. It occurred to me the other week that I’d yet to talk about them here on Well-Storied, despite the fact that I’ve been running this show for well over two years now. How could I have skipped something so crucial to the structure of a good novel? I'll be honest. For a long time, I re

Writing help

danielle-writes Some advice for when you're writing and find yourself stuck in the middle of a scene . kill someone . ask this question: "What could go wrong?" and write exactly how it goes wrong . switch the POV from your current character to another a minor character, the antagonist, anyone . stop writing whatever scene you're struggling with and skip to the next one vou want to write . write the ending . write a sex scene . use a scene prompt . use sentence starters . read…

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Without doubt, the prologue has its place in a writer’s bag of tricks.

Miss a deadline? Skip a day of writing? It's easy to fall into all-or-nothing thinking, that one miss makes you a failure as a writer. But it's not true.