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Section 2 -- Flowing Past Obstacles and Around Bends Smoothly
As you move your story along, you should be coming to various things in the lives of your characters that affect them in some way. The affected could simply be their actions or it could even be as drastic as their personalities. These things could, potentially, change the flow of your story.
Everything that happens in your story should be described in detail. However, turning points in your story, things that could seriously alter the outcome, should be described in great detail. By doing this, you should be able to avoid any confusion amongst your readers.
On another note, your story should have varied speeds of flow. Sometimes things should move quickly, such as in a battle scene, and sometimes things should move more slowly, maybe whilst walking through a difficult forest.
Remember, during a battle scene, we expect that things should be moving at a fast pace. IT would be kind of odd if the opponent’* next move came 2 hours later. But also remember that, during other slower scenes, it would also be weird if we walked into a forest and instantly appeared on the other side.
The pace of your story can be altered by events in the plot sequence or simply ** the amount of time you spend narrating. A relatively brief event can be expanded by the author depending on the amount of time they spend describing it. If it’s important, then you should probably do this. If an event isn’t important, then give us the basics and move along speedily*
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Section 3 -- Steering Clear of the Edge of the World
Imagine that you are a reader who is approaching the end of a story. You keep going and going and, finally, you get to the last chapter. After you’ve read it, you think to yourself, “That was lame! I don’t even *now what happened to the main character!”
No author wants their reader’s reaction to be like this. The last chapter of a book should be the grand finale, where the river finally meets the ocean. If that river abruptly falls off the edge of the world, not giving us any sort of reason as to why, we are not going to be pleased. We are not going to want to read your stories anymore. That is not a good thing.
Be sure to bring your story to a complete close if it is the only one you are going to write. Tie up most of the loose ends. If you are about to write the next one in a series, you can be a little more abrupt. Resolve the conflict of the first tale, but leave one open so that you can continue. Bring the story to more of a pause for the time being. Be sure to lay the foundation for the next story in the series during the first one so that you have the material needed to continue the plot line!
Think about the movies; usually, when a movie goes well, the producers will make another one to further increase their profits. In some movies, where the plot did*’t quite come to a close, this makes perfect sense. In other movies, though, the sequel(s) aren’t necessary and end up being bad. This is the kind of “flop” that you really want to avoid.
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In conclusion, lots of detail will helps us to steer clear of rocks in the river but abrupt plunges dishearten many*
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If you have seen Disney’s “Pocahontas”, you should remember the song, “Just around the River Bend.” Pocahontas sings it as she paddles along a river. Think for a moment—do you remember Pocahontas hitting an enormous rock, falling into the water, and drowning? Or do you remember her coming to the end of the world and falling off? If you do, you need to watch the movie again. She, most certainly, does NOT die during that song.
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04-Jun-2008 01:08:00

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Xandra, it's not really anything special for your friend to be friends with a great author. When Capt gets back, I'll 'officially' introduce you two and announce you 'friend and friend.' ;)
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