Tuesday's Writer's Tip Awkward Time and Place Shifts Janet Lane Walters #MFRWAuthor #BWLPublishing #Time #Place

Few books take place in just one place and in just a short span of time. As you revise, you can suddenly discover little things like having two very different actions taking place at the same time in your book. You can also wonder things like, I left the heroine in the kitchen, when did she travel to the barn. These and other little glitches make the time or place shifts on the book awkward for you and bring the reader to disbelief.

Let's look at the kind of times there can be.
Chronological time is objective. There are seconds, minutes, days, weeks months, years and so forth. In this kind of time, the characters move from event to event and from place to place.

Then there is subjective time and this is an emotional time. Remember how long it seemed when you were waiting for a special event in your life. Time seemed to drag. Then when you were experiencing that special time, time seemed to flow too fast.

The interesting thing about time is two people can experience the same block of time in different ways. He can think the time flies while she's thinking how the time drags.So keep this in mind while writing.

Both kind of time needs to be present in the story. More about how to use time in your story next time.

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