Writing Transitions: How to Move Smoothly Through Your Novel

By Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy

Just a heads up that I'm at Romance University this week, talking about plotting a novel when you don't yet know all the details of the story. Come on over and say hello!

As writers, we spend a lot of time on our scenes, but we don't always pay enough attention to how we move from scene to scene. But how we move our readers from line to line, paragraph to paragraph, scene to scene, and chapter to chapter all lead the reader though our story. If we don't do a good enough job, they won't get very far in the novel. Jarring jumps, awkward shifts, missing information, can all knock a reader right out of the tale.

And we don't want rough transitions that make readers give up on the book.

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