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In my story, I have 8 characters I really want to focus on, which is already a pretty large cast to begin with. At the beginning of the book, something important happens to each of the 8 that kicks...
#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T07:46:32Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/32801 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
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Eucaa
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2019-12-08T07:46:32Z (over 4 years ago)
In my story, I have 8 characters I really want to focus on, which is already a pretty large cast to begin with. At the beginning of the book, something important happens to each of the 8 that kicks off the main conflict of the story. The introductions of these characters can’t be skipped, and each incident is different, so multiple inciting events can’t be grouped into 1 chapter. However, I feel like slamming down 8 consecutive chapters of introduction after introduction at the very start of the story would get awfully repetitive, and 8 inciting events one after another would probably be very overwhelming to read about. How would I fix this? If possible, I’d like to avoid the “expositional flashback” trope too.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2018-01-25T23:06:44Z (over 6 years ago)
Original score: 15