Getting From Here to There

Transitions are a pain.

It is very likely that I feel this way because I hate doing transitions, and the ones I write nearly always feel clunky to me. Some of the clunkiness is probably just my dislike of the process of producing one attaching itself to the finished product, but I don't think all of it is. And painful or not, one has to get one's characters (and one's readers) out of one scene and into the next somehow, which means transitions are a very necessary part of writing.

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