tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024721400572472213.post7596923235834670767..comments2024-01-12T00:48:48.031-06:00Comments on Go Teen Writers: Transitioning time in manuscriptsStephanie Morrillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128389560727867719noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024721400572472213.post-4825738610864979632016-06-07T12:43:58.570-05:002016-06-07T12:43:58.570-05:00This is something I've had to work on a lot on...This is something I've had to work on a lot on my current WIP. I have two timelines running at the same time, and it's very complicated. My MMC and my FMC are the same age and tell the story through alternating chapters. I started my FMC at six, though, and needed to get caught up with eighteen-year-old MMC somewhere in act two. So... I started Miss Lark at six, skipped to twelve, showed one chapter of her as a fifteen-year-old, and then plunged her into the MMC's world at eighteen. :) Every time I skipped, I had to shower the first page or so with hints about her new age and what has changed in the last six years or however long it has been. It's like writing several first pages throughout the book!Olivianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024721400572472213.post-72656307072627885362011-04-13T08:44:33.782-05:002011-04-13T08:44:33.782-05:00Transitions have always been something I've st...Transitions have always been something I've struggled with, so I'm definitely bookmarking this one. Thanks for sharing!Tessa Emily Hallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08625256104634830104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024721400572472213.post-58172832197013891412011-04-07T10:48:55.141-05:002011-04-07T10:48:55.141-05:00Bumbling or not, I'm glad you have the courage...Bumbling or not, I'm glad you have the courage to try it because I think in speak for a your regulars when I day we LOVE itTonyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14500897912581589616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024721400572472213.post-49700939094549591332011-04-06T21:10:12.102-05:002011-04-06T21:10:12.102-05:00Oh, Rachelle, I'm so touched that you're r...Oh, Rachelle, I'm so touched that you're rereading Me, Just Different. Skylar and I don't have much in common either. I think that's what made her so fun to write :) And I'm proud of you for working so hard on the revisions for your manuscript. Frustrating but rewarding work.<br /><br />Tonya and Emii ... oh my goodness, you girls are WAY too nice. I feel like I'm totally bumbling my way through this. It's occurred to me that I can use this material for curriculum ... except then people might expect me to, like, teach and stuff. Yikes!Stephanie Morrillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13128389560727867719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024721400572472213.post-72429804656693704472011-04-06T19:45:19.792-05:002011-04-06T19:45:19.792-05:00I love your idea Tonya! I would definitely buy it....I love your idea Tonya! I would definitely buy it. Any publisher people reading this???;)emiihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02042164350910286833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024721400572472213.post-74190486665368173162011-04-06T18:53:28.974-05:002011-04-06T18:53:28.974-05:00Stephanie, I wonder if you could turn this series ...Stephanie, I wonder if you could turn this series into a book at the end<br />of the year? I can see it now, it'd be so fun & unique.<br />Each page or so a post, you could even have pages with our comments & then a<br />Blank page for readers to add their comments. Oh, &the cover would go along with your backroundTonyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14500897912581589616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024721400572472213.post-40857660815222348202011-04-06T16:55:26.398-05:002011-04-06T16:55:26.398-05:00Thankyou!!! This definitely helped a lot, Steph. A...Thankyou!!! This definitely helped a lot, Steph. And those examples were great. <br /><br />Congratulations, Rosenanna!emiihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02042164350910286833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024721400572472213.post-76624800877811250512011-04-06T15:08:11.815-05:002011-04-06T15:08:11.815-05:00I have been rereading "Me, Just Different.&qu...I have been rereading "Me, Just Different." It's partly because I am using it to 'research' how to revise my first three or so chapters (because of the Write Now program concerning needing a hook to begin with - mine started frightfully slow - and having the first three chapters end well because that's what those in the biz request first - and mine, well, didn't - not yet anyway). And partly because I LOVE this series so much. I wouldn't have thought so at the beginning. Skylar is nothing like me in so many ways - yet I GET her, right from the beginning. Something I am desperately trying to enable my reader to do!! :-) :-) So, thanks for this awesome series and helping me work out the kinks in my manuscript, and also for writing the first book in I don't know when that I have reread in a matter of a few months.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06150136011032761640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024721400572472213.post-26600173376160242862011-04-06T09:23:16.928-05:002011-04-06T09:23:16.928-05:00Aww, thanks for the shout-out, Stephanie. =)
Tran...Aww, thanks for the shout-out, Stephanie. =)<br /><br />Transitioning time is definitely one of those tricks we all must master. I remember agonizing over it if I skipped a few days way back when. Now I'm like, "Eh, I don't need those 18 months in here . . . skip!" ;-)Roseanna Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02245767775900250399noreply@blogger.com