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Topic	Why don't writers use longer time skips?
Squall28 04/27/24 10:16:01 AM #15:	MisterPengy posted... Why even write stories? Introduce your character, do a 10 year time skip, and resume at the final battle. 3 pages, max. Should be all you need. Where in the world did you draw this conclusion from? The cool thing about time skips is you can see characters and the world from a later point in the time. It doesn't have to skip story beats. If you don't have them, then you are limited to stories that take place within like a year or so, or you have to have a show that has like 1000 episodes. The only way your argument would make any sense is if stories have some arbitrary rule that it has to happen over 10 years. Just a completely nonsensical point. --- 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:980120597] in Why don't ... [t:80756820]...</cite> <quote>MisterPengy posted... </cite><quote>Why even write stories? Introduce your character, do a 10 year time skip, and resume at the final battle.3 pages, max. Should be all you need.</quote>Where in the world did you draw this conclusion from? The cool thing about time skips is you can see characters and the world from a later point in the time. It doesn't have to skip story beats. If you don't have them, then you are limited to stories that take place within like a year or so, or you have to have a show that has like 1000 episodes.The only way your argument would make any sense is if stories have some arbitrary rule that it has to happen over 10 years. Just a completely nonsensical point. --- 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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