Tuesday's Writer's Tip - Transitions #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #Writing #Transitions

 Transitions are vital to our stories. They do a number ofthings in a book. They take us from character to character, to new placces or new times. to either speed the story or slow the story down, strong tracsitions are necessary. sometimes stringing scenes one after another without a transition can bewilder the reader.

A transition can be short of long. Ofted using a date line can be a transition between times. Other times the transition can be rather lengthy such as a bit of exposition showing bywords that there is a change of person, place or time.Always a transition shows the reader a change. But transitions can also show a continuation of what has gone before. A man or woman can make a plan and perhaps hours, days, weeks, months or years later what they planned comes to fruition. Transitions show the continuity of a story.

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Wednesday's Writer's Tip - Transitions #MFRWauthor #amwriting

When revision transitions can present a problem, especially if they are abrupt of the writer forgets to show a way to show the transition. Many writers use * * * between the lines to indicate there is a change in viewpoint character, time or place. This generally works but sometimes it doesn't.

When transiting from one character to another in a scene the best way is to give one character their head for a time. If you switch, give the new character time toestablish him or herself in the passage. Jumping from character to character during a scene can confuse the reader, especially when you're showing showing the change from sentence to sentence or paragraph to paragraph. Head-hopping makes for a cluttered story.

A transition is a span to cross often showing a time difference. Don't make it so abrupt the reader if pulled from the story. Also don't make it too long. There is a danger of boring the reader. The way to avoid either of these is to give the reader a clue that this is going to happen. Allowing the reader to anticipate makes the transition become a smooth jump.

Don't be afraid to use things like the next day, he couldn't stand to wait but had to jump in, several days later, when he arrived at the house. These are all ways to show the transition has occurred.