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BookwormKiwi
Topic: Fic!time
Hey...wondering if someone could help, I'm just having trouble with one aspect of writing fics. It seems to happen that, as I take anywhere from a week to a year to write a fic, the time that passes in the fic seems, to me, to be a lot. But when I reread them, everything just happens so quickly, jumping from one scene to the next. It just is tomorrow before we really realised it was today.

Does anybody else have this problem? And if so, how do you deal with it?

#1 Mar 09th, 8:43pm
menme
Do you mean, trouble making sure the readers know how much time has passed in the story? Or your own changed feelings about what you're writing if it takes a chunk of your life like a year?

In the first caes, I always try to keep it subtle - if hte scene before was morning and the next one is night on teh same day, just a mention of "dark" rather than saying "it was that evening "

if it's hte second problem - a lot harder. I'll start a story in a sort of snappy style and when I get back to it weeks later, I'm in a more melancholy mood and the whole style changes without me wanting it to... Is it that?

#2 Mar 17th, 4:20am
BookwormKiwi
Hmm, now you mention it, I have a little trouble with that second issue, but I was actually refering to the first one. Like, it just moves sooo quickly - it's not so much between passages, but more in a single scene, when I try to write a whole hour of their time, when it sounds just like a few minutes. Maybe if I can find something, I'll put it an excerpt of a story that is affected by it. But thanks for your tips.
#3 Mar 18th, 3:53am

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