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[ohkaye.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to avoid it, but I've come to a point where I really need to jump forward in time a little bit and not fill that time with empty crap - I was thinking of just putting a little line in there or something, as some novelists do. Have you guys done this, or have you thought of a better way? I don't want to end the chapter yet.

Thanks!

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_xlivetodiex/]

If I feel like writing a different time; future or past, I just write it in a different document. I piece it together at the end. That way if I feel like adding on to something I had written before, I can just open up that document. If I have too big of a break, I just put a line, or call it a new chapter.

[oshngirl.livejournal.com]

If the story progresses like that (mine does) I usually just add a Three days later, MC sat on the beach thinking about the current event type sentence.

[graycatbird.livejournal.com]

i've jumped to a whole another scene that was completely unassociated with the one before... i figure i'll work it out next month ;) i would just go with what feels right for your writing right now and build on that:)

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

'Three weeks passed like a day, when suddenly the plot got interesting again.' Or something like that. ;-)

[nanogirl08.livejournal.com]

I haven't been writing my novel from start to finish either. I started off at the start but then when I jumped forward a bit, I started a new word doc. That somehow became five...then four...then five but eventually I will join them all up into one seamless whole.

And of course you could just do the whole asterix thing. No one ever said that novels couldn't jump forward in time and they certainly never said you had to explain it. :)

[usedusernames.livejournal.com]

Like the above people, I've just started writing from different times, although in my case all in the same document, and I'm hoping it'll come together in the end.

My actual scene break is

:-:-:

I've also worked less significant (or significant but still relevant to the scene at hand) time-jumps into a paragraph, like (after describing one day of work)'...and while the ranch didn't at once turn itself around, George still felt a swell of pride when he collected his month's pay.'

Really, I think you can do whatever you think feels right for your story, though.