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I’ve got a good ‘starting world’ and then a good ‘new world’ for the rest of my story, but those transition chapters are really challenging to get right. How do you suggest introducing new setting, characters, and environment in a palatable and not info-dumpy way? Thanks a million!
"Natural integration of new elements and characters…
In my personal writing process, I have a list of the main elements, details, etc. that must be incorporated smoothly but clearly, in a checklist style, which I return to when I print out and am editing the first draft and use it as a tracker. I color code by plot development, character development, and world building, as well as thematic elements, and make sure I’ve checked every box, but not been repetitive.
Here are some resources you might also find useful:
- Making A Story Come Together
- Improving Flow In Writing
- Showing vs. Telling
- Setting: How To Describe The Setting In Your Stories
- Resources For Describing Physical Things
- Resources For Describing Characters
- Resources For Describing Emotions
- How To Foreshadow
- Resources For World building
- Resources For Plot Development
- Finding & Fixing Plot Holes
- Step-By-Step Plan: Editing Your Own Writing
- What To Cut Out Of Your Story
- Editing & Proofreading Cheat Sheet
- Editing: What To Change, Draft By Draft
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Film du Jour: The Beguiled - 2017 - Sofia Coppola
Audrey Hepburn’s Screen Tests for Roman Holiday (1954)
It’s about a girl who gets turned into a swan and she needs love to break the spell, but her prince falls for the wrong girl so she kills herself.
BLACK SWAN (2010) dir. Darren Aronofsky
“So I said: “please love me,” and what I meant was: please treat me gently. Please love me with a love that can be felt. That can be touched. A love that I can write about gracefully if and when it ends. Which I may look upon with pacific eyes, and say: “that was a good love. It had to end but it was good.””Sue Zhao // Nothing but Strawberries
when richard siken said “it keeps coming back to that: what do i do with these hands?” and when mitski said “i don’t know what to do without you, i don’t know where to put my hands” and when olivia gatwood said “what am i, if not yours? what do i do with my hands when they are just hands?” and when sylvia plath said “what did my fingers do before they held him? what did my heart do, with its love?”
