What recent events instigated your story? How are they compelling your characters into action? Which historical scars and social pressures provoke their reactions in each scene?īy plotting these histories visually, you can cross reference personal and world events-prompting fresh insights about your characters. To ensure authentic choices, it helps to build thorough backstories for your characters and your world. To pull off this magic trick, each character’s stakes need to be high enough that they can’t simply walk away. You determine every choice for your characters, but you want them to bring their own goals and motive to every scene. Just the freedom to be able to throw these events around made me realize I had been getting it entirely wrong.” I’ve taken 20-odd years of information, and reframed it around a single weekend. “Looking at this on the timeline, I thought, that’s actually the beginning and end of the story.
You could use pen and paper, but using a digital timeline encourages you to freely experiment and find new possibilities: What if I compressed my timeline? Would it increase tension, and force my characters to act impulsively? Or do my characters need more time to grow?.What is the chronology of my story? What are the key moments and when do they need to happen?.Time is crucial to controlling pace and tension. We writers talk a lot about setting, but stories live in time as much as they live in space. Perfect your pacing with the right time frame It’s actually going to enhance your creativity, and give you more freedom.” Aeon Timeline allows me to do more of that, because it encourages me to be spontaneous in the space in-between. “I like to write fast and I like to write loose. Planning a few signposts won’t change that, but it will make writing less stressful. Creating this sense of direction is what building a visual story timeline is all about.ĭon’t worry: 50,000 words provides abundant room for creativity.
I find it easier to maintain momentum when I have the lure of a compelling climax to write towards. To get to the finish line, you need to make sure every scene is pulling in the right direction. Writing a novel any time is tough finishing one in a month is crazy. With help from authors David Williams and Andrew Hanson, let’s look at why so many stories fail in the middle stages, and the planning you can do now to avoid those mid-novel traps. Over 200,000 promising novels are abandoned-typically in the sticky middle stages.Īt Aeon Timeline, we believe that visual planning with timelines can bring purpose to your writing, add depth to your characters, and sustain your creative energy until the end. Yet every year, only one in ten Wrimos make it to the end. An intriguing premise a character to explore a surprise twist a cliffhanger ending-something is telling you that you are the person to write this story. If you are like me your story has been gnawing inside you for months.
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NaNoWriMo writers can try out a free trial of Aeon Timeline through December 15! In this post, the folks at Aeon share a few ways that making a timeline for your novel can help your story: Aeon Timeline, a 2022 NaNoWriMo sponsor, is a visual hub for your entire story. Every year, we’re lucky to have great sponsors for our nonprofit events.
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