Vanya
Dreamer
How do you lengthen your story without 'info dumping', dragging the story, or going too quickly? My initial problem was jumping from one thing to the next, going quickly over many events before even reaching page 20. Now I'm going back through and trying to beef up the story, adding more dialog or descriptions here, history info there, but it doesn't seem to be enough. It's just on the verge of still being to much in too little amount of pages but I don't want to drag the story out by adding in a scene or lengthening a scene that has no real value to the story. Should I do this (add/lengthen the story) for character development if no other reason? I don't want to bore the reader with frivolous dialog when there's a lot of action in the upcoming unwritten pages just brewing in my head to put on paper.