Wordweaver
Dreamer
I have reached a point in my WIP where I want to skip a few weeks ahead to avoid following a pair of travelers as they travel by foot, mostly uneventfully, to their distant destination. But I'm torn...by not portraying their travels, I feel like I'm losing the opportunity to develop the characters' relationship to each other, but I also don't want to describe the long, mostly boring journey in painstaking detail at the expense of the reader's interest just so that they can see that the travelers are growing closer.
I thought about going the simple route and just making their destination closer, but scrapped that idea because I want my MC to have a distinct feeling of being out on his own, far from home, kind of learning the ways of the world outside of his small hometown.
So if I do skip ahead a few weeks, and maybe refer to some of the character-building moments in passing, do you think it will take away from the effectiveness and the "flow" of the narrative? How long is too long to skip, and how much description of the skipped events should be alluded to later (if any)?
Any suggestions or alternatives?
I thought about going the simple route and just making their destination closer, but scrapped that idea because I want my MC to have a distinct feeling of being out on his own, far from home, kind of learning the ways of the world outside of his small hometown.
So if I do skip ahead a few weeks, and maybe refer to some of the character-building moments in passing, do you think it will take away from the effectiveness and the "flow" of the narrative? How long is too long to skip, and how much description of the skipped events should be alluded to later (if any)?
Any suggestions or alternatives?