flow of time

Managing The Flow of Time in Your Story
Byaudenjohnson April 30, 2014July 21, 2020

How do manage the flow of time in a story with several POV characters doing different things? I touched on this in the post Multiple Perspectives. Let’s say we start with John’s POV and then switch to Mary’s, spending 2 days with her. Then, we shift to Cat’s and spend 3 days with her. You…

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Epic Roadblocks
Byaudenjohnson June 29, 2012July 21, 2020

It seems the more epic the story is the more roadblocks you run into. It’s usually one mountain of a roadblock too. My latest WIP is told from the point-of-view of several characters and I’m struggling with how to arrange the different POVs/chapters. We write what we want to read and I don’t like stories with too many POVs…

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