Today’s links are all about a sense of time and moving your story forward. Pacing, structure, summary, scene, order, transitions, flashback. Flashback? Pacing by Justine Labalastier This is essentially snippets of advice from writers Labalastier knows that she has cobbled together, but the result is surprisingly useful. I remember an eleven year old boy in a workshop, when I asked what sort of problems they had writing stories, saying: “How do I make my story last longer? Like, I wrote... read more
