Let's Talk About Transitions.

Let's talk about transitions.

Transitioning between fast-paced and slow-paced scenes is essential for maintaining the flow of your narrative and keeping readers engaged throughout your story, allowing for moments of reflection, introspection, and character development.

Here are some strategies to smoothly transition between different pacing levels:

Use scene endings and beginnings: End a fast-paced scene with a cliffhanger or revelation that propels the story forward, then transition to a slower-paced scene that allows characters (and readers) to process the events. On the flip side, begin a slow-paced scene with a hook or question that intrigues readers and draws them deeper into the story.

Bridge paragraphs: Include bridge paragraphs between scenes to provide a smooth transition. These paragraphs can briefly summarize the previous scene's events, set the scene for the upcoming events, or transition between different settings, characters, or points of view.

Change in tone or focus: Shift the tone or focus of the narrative to signal a change in pacing. For example, transition from a tense action scene to a quieter moment of reflection by shifting the narrative focus from external events to internal thoughts and emotions.

Utilise pacing within scenes: Even within a single scene, you can vary the pacing to create transitions. Start with a fast-paced opening to grab the reader's attention, then gradually slow down the pacing as you delve deeper into character interactions, dialogue, or introspection. Conversely, speed up the pacing to inject energy and excitement into slower scenes.

Symbolic transitions: Use symbolic elements within the narrative to signal transitions between pacing levels. For example, transition from a fast-paced scene set during a stormy night to a slow-paced scene set in the calm aftermath of the storm, mirroring the shift in pacing.

Foreshadowing: Use subtle foreshadowing in fast-paced scenes to hint at upcoming events or conflicts that will be explored in slower-paced scenes. This creates anticipation and helps to smoothly transition between different pacing levels by maintaining continuity in the narrative arc.

Character reactions: Show how characters react to the events of fast-paced scenes in the subsequent slower-paced scenes. Use their thoughts, emotions, and actions to provide insight into the impact of these events on the story and its characters, helping to bridge the transition between pacing levels.

See my post on pacing for more! ❀

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9 months ago

Hello πŸ‘‹, I hope you're doing well.. My name is Mahmoud, and I'm a 17-year-old from Gaza. The ongoing war has devastated my city, destroyed my school, and made daily life incredibly challenging. Despite these hardships, I'm determined to continue my education and build a better future. I've been given a chance to study abroad, but I need help to cover the costs of leaving Gaza, as well as living expenses and other essentials abroad once the crossing opens.. If you can, please consider donating or sharing, your kindness can truly make a difference, and thanks for your time. πŸ™β€ https://gofund.me/bd3ccf0b

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8 months ago

Hello dears! πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈπŸ‰πŸ™I am asking you to support my campaign to help me reach my goal. I am in dire need of your support now to help me stay alive and safe. Gaza is a very dangerous place both in terms of living and lives. The family consists of 12 members, most of them are young children. I need your financial support to enable me to get the basic needs for my family until the Rafah crossing is😭 reopened to transport my family to safety and peace. Please help a family stay alive through your small donations or through your shares to others. Thank you very much for standing by those in need.πŸ‰πŸ™β¬‡οΈπŸ“

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10 months ago

Clarifications for Epithet Erased fan artists tagging their posts:

Trixie's last name is spelled Roughhouse, with two H's. It's just the words Rough and House smashed together.

Banzai Blasters, as in yelling "Banzai!" before jumping into a pool, not "Bonsai" like the tree

I'm so sorry but Yoomtah is a mononym now, her last name isn't Zing like it was in Anime Campaign. I've been tagging her as just "Yoomtah" for years but nobody has noticed and there wasn't really a time to bring it up. Whoops.

Phoenica Fleecity.

Phoenica Fleecity.

Phoenica spelled like Phoenix.

Clarifications For Epithet Erased Fan Artists Tagging Their Posts:

Phoenica is a reused OC from a project where all the characters were named after scientific classification for animals. Phoenica was male in the original iteration, so her name was Phoenico, after Flamingos.

9 months ago

Hello dear friends! β€πŸ€πŸ–€πŸ’š

πŸ‰I am Mahmoud Ayyad, a Palestinian from the besieged and destroyed Gaza 😭😭, coming from an extended family of young children, women and elderly people ❀❀ who have been suffering😭😭 for 300 difficult days from an aggressive war.

Our lives are harsh because we lack all the basic necessities of life. Everything has become scarce and unattainable. There is no food, no water, no medicine.

So, I ask you to help me keep my family safe and alive, especially after we had lost all our sources of livelihood.Please do not leave my family to struggle and suffer these difficult days alone. You can support my campaign by donating whatever you can or by sharing my posts to reach others who can help us survive the war to safety and peace. You are helping the lives of many people with your small contribution. Every donation makes a difference in our very difficult lives. But this is a legitimate campaign and has been checked by 90-ghost.

https://gofund.me/31c5cbe3

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1 year ago

β€œomg you’re so creative. how do you get your ideas” i hallucinate a single scene in the taco bell drive thru and then spend 13 months trying to write it

1 year ago

We need to bring back fanfics where the author talks to the characters in the chapter notes and occasional intertexual asides, and through this medium the reader gradually becomes aware of a whole secondary metanarrative concerning the interpersonal dramas of the notional "actors" playing the characters in the fic.

9 months ago

Same 😭

I'm tired of being a girl kisser with no girl to kiss 😠


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1 year ago

This beautiful girl's name is Fatima. She is only 5 years old. Israel bombed her house, killing her parents, then bombed her aunt's house that she and her sibling were staying in, now her whole family is dead.

Her pain is all of humanity's pain. DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE. DON'T GET USED TO THIS.


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1 year ago

The β€œoh I could definitely write this fanfic in under 5000 words and it really wouldn’t take me that long” voice in your head is actually the devil speaking

7 months ago

We all agree, right?

AI to write your novel is wrong

A bargain with a demon to write your novel is okay

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