I need a hand

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I wanted to kno if u could skip days in the stories u write, or what do I do? The writer’s block i’m stuck on is where nothing occurs on a day in my story. So, xan I do that or is that not good for writing?

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You can skip days, months, even years if you tell it in the right manner.

As long as you give a decent explanation as to what’s happened in general over the course of time. For days, it could be something as simple as “Over the next few days….” and fill in the blanks. You can fill a whole week like that with a paragraph.

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I’m a bit baffled by the question, but…

Short answer: yes, you can skip days.

Better answer: the events of a given day are only worth including in a story if they add something (character development, advancing the plot, establishing or resolving conflict, etc.) to the story.

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You can do exactly what you want, whensoever and howsoever you want. But just do it well.

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Not only can you but you probably should. One of the most common flaws you see around here is stories that are nothing but a blow by blow account of day after day after day. Just keep it to stuff that’s interesting in some way.

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I have found myself doing a chapter for each day of the story. Skip boring days. Seriously.

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Thanks 4 the help

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I know it’s annoying for someone to say, but I don’t know how it hasn’t been brought up already: the grammar police are fully operational in this area.

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Plus there’s the necro of a thank you and nothing more…

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Of course you can! Have you ever read a book in real time? I think not.

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hmmm… novelised version of 24… “the next chapter must be started at 4am”

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That would be total agony, though isn’t that more or less what Ulysses is?

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I don’t think a book could be written with a real time perspective mainly because the speed at which the reader reads the book varies from person to person…

I mean I could describe a single room in three or four pages that’d take someone at least ten-twenty minutes to read all the way through, but in reality we could process that information faster by seeing it, thus the time it takes for us to read a setting is essentially a gigantic pause button for time in a story.

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