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Similar to this question, I am slowly coming to realize that my writing is getting choppy. Unlike that question however, my problem does not lie within sentences, or even paragraphs. It lies within...
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2019-12-12T17:48:58Z (over 4 years ago)
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2019-12-08T04:24:05Z (over 4 years ago)
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Similar to [this question](https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/10875/what-can-i-do-to-make-my-writing-less-choppy), I am slowly coming to realize that my writing is getting choppy. Unlike that question however, my problem does not lie within sentences, or even paragraphs. It lies within whole scenes. Recently, I've found that my stories are starting to sound more like a narration of events than anything else. This happens. Then something else happens. Then the hero goes here and learns this. Then he does this. The scenes seem to fall one after the other like soldiers in a line. The worst part is that I'm not entirely sure where the problem is. Part of me feels it lies in jumping from one plot point to the next with nothing bridging between the two (for example, once I'm done with a plot point I'll end the scene, say with a cliff-hanger, and open the next chapter with "the next morning..."). Part of me feels like it's something completely different. At the same time, I can't help but notice that the openings of my novels seem fine. This may be because they are generally only one scene long. But it may also be because I develop them differently than the rest of the plot. To generate plot, I use a version of the method described by Lauren Ipsum in the answer to [this question](https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/16188/how-when-to-include-twists-when-developing-plot/16190#16190). I will start with a general feel for how the plot progresses, and work backwards from the climax. Useful as this method is, it could be the reason my writing seems to be devolving into a line of scenes, as all I'm doing is coming up for reasons for each scene. Does anyone know what my problem is, and better yet, how to fix it?
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2015-06-29T22:33:48Z (almost 9 years ago)
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