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Come up with different ways in which you can incorporate these chapters. You may even find you like the new ideas you come up with better. -
There are flashbacks in movies. One screenplay I had a pirate just standing at the prow. The peice was a bit dirty, but I had fun with...
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Don't scrap those chapters. Just repurpose them.
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It happens to a lot of writers. Brandon Sanderson has mentioned several times that he regularly makes a few attempts at his opening...
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JLiana replied to the thread Just had a realisation....For sure, for now I'm just writing the third chapter as a third chapter, and then I'll see how the rest of it goes before I get rid of...
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Be careful about making big changes before you finish the first draft. What may appear to be a good decision in isolation may later be...
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JLiana reacted to skip.knox's post in the thread Writing fantasy where magic isn't super relevant to the plot. with
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OK, so it's a fantasy setting, but ... we don't know it? Ordinary setting (for whatever time period; you didn't specify). Normally, we... -
Write the whole story, then come back to the first few chapters. You may find that re-arranging the order in which some things happen or...
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Count yourself lucky it is only two chapters. I made it ten chapters into the WIP before realizing I'd started it in the wrong place...
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JLiana reacted to xena's post in the thread Writing fantasy where magic isn't super relevant to the plot. with Like.
I think it can absolutely work! You don’t need magic or dragons, small details like how people interact with the world can signal it...
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JLiana replied to the thread Just had a realisation....Yeah, absolutely! I'm learning to cut things in my writing, I knew cutting chapters would eventually creep up and get me. But I super...
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I am a believer in starting the story at the point where everything changes. While I would say both snippets do that, it does seem to me...
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JLiana replied to the thread Just had a realisation....Oh, absolutely! I don't regret the effort, either. It helped me figure out how I write!
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I just threw out a chapter in my own writing. It happens. Don't view it as wasted effort. You needed to write those two chapers in order...
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JLiana replied to the thread Just had a realisation....Oh yeah, definitely! I'm not stopping because of this, I need to actually finish a first draft lol. It just made my head spin because I...