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Fantasy: December 30, 2020 Issue [#10539]




 This week: A Tough Transition: a story continues
  Edited by: Dawn Embers
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Fantasy Newsletter by Dawn

The year is ending, things are changing and while there has been quite a story from 2020, it's not going to be an easy transition into 2021. Stories can be like that. Some may have a smooth transition but others will be more of a challenge.


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The end of anything is often a shift into something different instead of a complete halt or finish. This is true for a variety of endings, whether we are talking about stories or even the end of the year. Which is where we are at now with 2020 finally coming to an end. While many of us are looking forward to the end this year with hopes that the next will bring about positive change, there is also the reality that it's probably not going to be a quick shift into anything different. It's probably going to take more than the drop of the ball in time square and people yelling "Jumanji" in order to give a shift back or to anything we would want to call normal.

Not to be a Debbie Downer, but chances are the transition we see from one end to the next isn't going to be easy. Same goes for the political world too but we'll leave that discussion for the news. We can also consider endings and transitions when it comes to our own stories.

For some, the story ends when the one scene, story or even novel reaches that final stage where you write (or think in your head as you finish typing) "the end." However, unless the world is completely destroyed or everything going into non-existence, in many ways it's more of a stall or just the reader and writer moving on. The characters, on the other hand, keep going on with their lives whether we tell those tales or not.

Then there are stories that continue when one conflict ends with the writer producing different ones using the same characters. You could create a series of stories where things move from one to another with each having their own form of a beginning and an ending. For novels, this is more common when you create a full series whether it's just a set of two books for a series of 17. Each story can have an end but there is also an element of transition that draws the reader from one to the other. Some may get a smooth transition from one to the other but there are going to be others where it's a difficult, rough change.

How do you write a transition? Well, that depends on the story, how the one ends and how the next one begins. There are a variety of options with varying levels of difficulty. The middle book in series, for example, have known problems with maybe not having a difficult transition but at being a little on the boring side as they are the part needed to get the characters from point A (book 1) to point B, C, or D (depends how many books are in the series). There is always the question of how much time to allow between one book or story until the next. Are they close in sequence? Does some time pass that the reader doesn't see?

Options galore, that is the joy of writing. We have so many choices and whether it's a difficult change we or the characters have to face, it gives us something to write about.


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How do you transition in a story or between stories in a series?


Last month I discussed making a change when it came to stories with a little emphasis on editing. Here are a couple of comments sent from that newsletter:

Comment by Madwriter
I have a problem with my grammar and spelling, I use grammarly but I know that's not a permanent fix, do you have any advice to fix it?


Comment by Quick-Quill
This is an excellent newsletter. It came at the right time for me as I'm rewriting/editing. It gives me a different way to look at my work as I move forward.



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