Where The Road Ends

what simon gets up to when grace is teaching~~

bonus:

Start from the middle anyway

Write your heroes in the middle of their perilous journey, don’t offer any explanation yet on why they are doing what they are doing. Sometimes writing a story gives you better insight on your own characters, and also help you expand on your knowledge of your currently incomplete world

For example, you have a super great scene in your head about a couple of mercenaries running away to safety from a monster, but you don’t know why they’re even fighting that monster.

Write the scene anyway, on how they managed to escape, on who didn’t survive, on the survivors and how they are faring.

If you still don’t have any idea how it got to that point, take a break and come back to it later. You don’t have to force yourself to finish it all in one sitting.

Then come back to it, and you have several options to convey the backstory.

1. Through flashbacks Your next chapter started with “It all started with–” and you tell the story chronologically from then on up until the scene you first thought of, and there are other ways to utilize it

2. Through characters having conversations regarding of what happened No flashback, just characters discussing the events and what led to it. A great way to withhold information from the readers, as each characters would have their own narratives on the event, and not necessarily based on facts. Then you can proceed by trickling information down through the rest of the narrative.

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