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Topic	Why don't writers use longer time skips?
Squall28 04/27/24 9:28:24 AM #6:	AsucaHayashi posted... because if a potential sequel requires a longer time skip to make sense, the writer has a much narrower time period to work with. What do you mean? Why is saying 5 years has passed between Part 1 and 2, harder to say than saying only 1 year has passed. It's practically 1 line of dialogue. Just make it more believable. I'm watching a show right now, won't name to avoid spoilers, but the protagonist went from being a scrawny rookie kid to the buff leader of the gang. When I watched the scene, I was like oh, so like a few years passed. I looked it up and it was a few months. It's like why. WHY do you have to cram stuff into the smallest window possible. --- You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. -Misattributed to CS Lewis <cite>Squall28 posted [p:980120085] in Why don't ... [t:80756820]...</cite> <quote>AsucaHayashi posted... </cite><quote>because if a potential sequel requires a longer time skip to make sense, the writer has a much narrower time period to work with.</quote>What do you mean? Why is saying 5 years has passed between Part 1 and 2, harder to say than saying only 1 year has passed. It's practically 1 line of dialogue. Just make it more believable. I'm watching a show right now, won't name to avoid spoilers, but the protagonist went from being a scrawny rookie kid to the buff leader of the gang. When I watched the scene, I was like oh, so like a few years passed. I looked it up and it was a few months. It's like why. WHY do you have to cram stuff into the smallest window possible. --- You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.-Misattributed to CS Lewis</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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