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Q&A Writing Montage in Novels

In The Internet President: None of the Above, I create the equivalent of montage as a series of short chapters to cover campaigning for president. I enter each scene as late as possible and leave a...

posted 5y ago by P.G. Sundling‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T06:03:21Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar P.G. Sundling‭ · 2019-12-08T06:03:21Z (almost 5 years ago)
In The Internet President: None of the Above, I create the equivalent of montage as a series of short chapters to cover campaigning for president. I enter each scene as late as possible and leave as early as possible. Leave a taste and let the reader's imagination fill in the rest. This worked for me because my book was written in a terse cinematic writing style. If your pacing is slower, this technique may not work as well.

I use one chapter per scene, even if it's a one-page transition. If you're using multiple scenes in a chapter with separators, then put a number of short vignettes in a chapter. Summarize what you can. Beowulf reflected fifty years in a single sentence.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-05-28T07:19:55Z (over 5 years ago)
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