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You are writing a story, not a history. Were the characters of your story real people (which they are not) many things would happen to them in their day to day lives that are not in any way relevan...
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#4: Attribution notice removed
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2020-01-03T20:41:54Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T06:42:07Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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2019-12-08T06:42:07Z (almost 5 years ago)
You are writing a story, not a history. Were the characters of your story real people (which they are not) many things would happen to them in their day to day lives that are not in any way relevant to the story. Your story is not going to tell us how many times they went to the bathroom or brushed their teeth. It is going to focus on story relevant incidents. This is just as much true on the large scale as it is on the small scale. Days, months, or years may sometimes pass without a single story relevant incident, and there is no more need to account for those day, months, or years than there is to account for the daily brushing of the teeth. If a great deal of time has passed between one story relevant incident and another, you probably need to indicate this somehow, if only so the reader can age the character a little in their mind's eye. So say it and move on to the next story-relevant incident.
#1: Imported from external source
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2017-06-29T10:50:31Z (over 7 years ago)
Original score: 2